Bharatisiren
Genus of mammals
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Bharatisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India during the early Miocene (Aquitanian) period.
| Bharatisiren Temporal range: | |
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| Bharatisiren kachchhensis and Kutchisiren cylindrica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Sirenia |
| Family: | Dugongidae |
| Subfamily: | Dugonginae |
| Genus: | †Bharatisiren Bajpai and Domning, 1997 |
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Taxonomy
The type species of Bharatisiren, B. kachchhebsis, was originally named as a species of Metaxytherium, M. kachchhebsis, by Bajpai et al. (1987) from the Aquitanian-age Khari Nadi Formation of western India.[1] Bajpai and Domning (1997) however, judged M. kachchhensis generically distinct enough from the Metaxytherium type species to warrant its own genus, Bharatisiren.[2]
