Nakusia Ginsburg et al. 1999 (odd-toed ungulate)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla

Full reference: L. Ginsburg, K. H. Durrani, A. M. Kassi and J.-L. Welcomme. 1999. Discovery of a New Anthracobunidae (Tethytheria, Mammalia) from the Lower Eocene lignite of the Kach-Harnai Area in Baluchistan (Pakistan). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Series IIA Earth and Planetary Science 328(3):209-213

Parent taxon: Perissodactyla according to K. D. Rose et al. 2014

See also Cooper et al. 2014, Ginsburg et al. 1999 and Rose et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Anthracobunidae, Brontotheriidae, Cambaytheriidae, Cambaytherium, Chelodactyla, Desmostylia, Equina, Equoidea, Ghazijhippus, Hallensia, Hippopotamus iravaticus, Hyracotheriidae, Lophodontomorpha, Mesaxonia, Mesolambdolophus, Paschatherium, Perissobune, Rhinocerotida, Selenida, Skopaiolophus, Solidungula, Stereopterna, Tapiromorpha, Teilhardimys, Titanotheriomorpha

Subtaxa: Nakusia shahrigensis

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer

Distribution: found only at Between Shahrig and Nakus (Eocene of Pakistan)

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