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Khirtharia inflatus

Mammalia - Raoellidae

Taxonomy
Bunodentus inflatus was named by Ranga Rao (1972). Its type specimen is ONG/K/9, a mandible (right mandible with p3-m3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sindkhatudi Bone Bed, which is in a Lutetian lagoonal mudstone/siltstone in India.

It was synonymized subjectively with Khirtharia dayi by West (1980); it was recombined as Khirtharia inflata by Thewissen et al. (2001); it was recombined as Khirtharia inflatus by Kumar and Sahni (1985) and Theodor et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Bunodentus inflatus Ranga Rao
1985Khirtharia inflatus Kumar and Sahni p. 159
2001Khirtharia inflata Thewissen et al. p. 356
2007Khirtharia inflatus Theodor et al. p. 55

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
superfamilyDichobunoideaGill 1872
familyRaoellidae
genusKhirtharia
speciesinflatus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Khirtharia inflatus Ranga Rao 1972
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available