Kotatherium haldanei Datta 1981 (mammaliaform)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Kuehneotheriidae

Full reference: P. M. Datta. 1981. The first Jurassic mammal from India. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 73:307-312

Belongs to Kotatherium according to Datta 1981

See also Prasad and Manhas 1997

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: G.S.I. Type No. 19634, a tooth (right upper molar). Its type locality is 5 km west of Yamanapalli, which is in a Sinemurian/Pliensbachian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/limestone in the Kota Formation of India.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at 5 km west of Yamanapalli

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