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Khirtharia dayi

Mammalia - Raoellidae

Taxonomy
Khirtharia dayi was named by Pilgrim (1940). Its type specimen is British Museum M15796, a set of teeth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lammidhan, which is in a Lutetian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Khirtharia dayi Pilgrim pp. 141-145 figs. 1,1a,2,2a,text-fig.2
1958Khirtharia dayi Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg p. 29
1973Khirtharia dayi Sahni and Khare p. 44
2001Khirtharia dayi Thewissen et al. p. 356
2007Khirtharia dayi 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()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
superfamilyDichobunoideaGill 1872
familyRaoellidae
genusKhirtharia
speciesdayi

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 dayi Pilgrim 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: grazero
Diet 2: browsero
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-26 14:03:05
Modified: 2005-09-19 12:23:23
Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999

Age range: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Pakistan (North-West Frontier) Khirtharia dayi (28978)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3India (Jammu and Kasmir) Khirtharia dayi (93702)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Pakistan (Punjab) Khirtharia dayi (45529 45586 49844 type locality: 53001)