Gandakasia

Gandakasia
Temporal range: Lutetian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: †Ambulocetidae
Genus: †Gandakasia
Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958
Species:
†G. potens
Binomial name
†Gandakasia potens
Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958

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 due to the lack of material. Gandakasia probably inhabited a freshwater niche similar to the pakicetids.

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