Kutchisiren

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Kutchisiren
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Subfamily:
Dugonginae
Genus: Kutchisiren
Bajpai et al., 2010
Species
  • K. cylindrica Bajpai et al., 2010 (type)

Kutchisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India during the Miocene period.[1] It was named by S. Bajpai, D. P. Domning, D. P. Das, J. Velez-Juarbe, and V. P. Mishra in 2010, and the type species is Kutchisiren cylindrica. It was originally named Kotadasiren gracilis (as a nomen nudum) in 1994, by Das and Basu.[1]

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