Gandakasia
Name:
Gandakasia.
Phonetic: Gan-dak-a-se-ah.
Named By: R. Dehm & T.
Oettingen-Spielberg - 1958.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Cetacea,
Archaeoceti, Ambulocetidae.
Species: G. potens (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of teeth.
Known locations: Pakistan - Kuldana Formation.
Time period: Lutetian of the Eocene.
Fossil representation: Teeth.
Gandakasia is a little known genus of primitive whale from Pakistan, and not surprising given that the genus was named only upon the description of teeth.
Further reading
- Pal�ontologische und geologische Untersuchungen im Terti�r von
Pakistan. - Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Mathewmatisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 91:1-54. - R. Dehm
& T. Oettingen-Spielberg - 1958.
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