Biology:Gandakasia
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Short description: Extinct genus of ambulocetid from Pakistan
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Ambulocetidae |
| Genus: | †Gandakasia Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958 |
| Species: | †G. potens
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| †Gandakasia potens Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958[2]
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Gandakasia is an extinct genus of ambulocetid from Pakistan , that lived in the Eocene epoch. It probably caught its prey near rivers or streams.
Just like Himalayacetus, Gandakasia is only known from a single jaw fragment, making comparisons to other ambulocetids difficult.[3]
The first ambulocetid to be described, Gandakasia was not initially recognized as a cetacean.[4]
Gandakasia probably inhabited a freshwater niche similar to the pakicetids.[3]
References
- ↑ Thewissen, J. G. M., ed (1998) (in en-gb). The Emergence of Whales. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0159-0. ISBN 978-1-4899-0161-3. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0159-0.
- ↑ Dehm, R.; Oettingen-Spielberg, T. (1958) (in German). Die mitteleocänen Säugetiere von Ganda Kas bei Basal in Nordwest-Pakistan. Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cooper, Lisa Noelle; Thewissen, J. G.M.; Hussain, S. T. (2009). "New middle Eocene archaeocetes (Cetacea: Mammalia) from the Kuldana Formation of northern Pakistan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (4): 1289–1299. doi:10.1671/039.029.0423.
- ↑ Ando, Konami; Fujiwara, Shin‐Ichi (2016). "Farewell to life on land – thoracic strength as a new indicator to determine paleoecology in secondary aquatic mammals". Journal of Anatomy 229 (6): 768–777. doi:10.1111/joa.12518. PMID 27396988.
Wikidata ☰ Q1930911 entry
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