Metkatius

Metkatius, named after the town of Metka in the province Jammu and Kashmir, is a small extinct raoellid artiodactyl which inhabited northern India during the Middle Eocene (48-45 Mya) during the Early Lutetian age. Metkatius is known from fragmentary remains, with the only discovered fossil remains being mandibular and maxillary fragments and isolated teeth, mainly belonging to juvenile specimens and a portion of the skeleton of a juvenile, a fragmentary skull, vertabrae, and a forelimb. There are two species of Metkatius, M. kashmiriensis and M. babbiangalensis, the former of which is named after Kashmir while the latter is named after the local word "Babbian" meaning hill and "Gala" meaning depression between two hills.