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Indohyus major
Taxonomy
Indohyus major was named by Thewissen et al. (1987). Its type specimen is GSP-UM 1435 (Isolated Left trigonid), a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chorlakki, which is in a Lutetian fluvial conglomerate in the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan.
It was recombined as Khirtharia major by Orliac and Ducrocq (2012).
It was recombined as Khirtharia major by Orliac and Ducrocq (2012).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1987 | Indohyus major Thewissen et al. pp. 263-266 figs. 6F-H |
| 2007 | Indohyus major Theodor et al. p. 55 |
| 2012 | Khirtharia major Orliac and Ducrocq p. 81 |
| 2020 | Indohyus major Thewissen et al. p. 344 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Indohyus major Thewissen et al. 1987
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. G. M. Thewissen et al. 1987 | About twice as large as Indohyus indirae (see Table 3). |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Spaulding et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lutetian | Pakistan (North-West Frontier) | Indohyus major (type locality: 28978) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Jiangsu) | Khirtharia major (122719) Suoidea indet. (37493) |