Kharmerungulatum Temporal range: Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian |
|
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Eutheria |
Genus: |
†Kharmerungulatum Prasad et al., 2007 |
Species | |
Kharmerungulatum is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Intertrappean Beds of Andhra Pradesh, India. Its specific epithet honors Leigh Van Valen. It was originally considered to be one of the earliest known condylarths., but more recent studies find it to be a zhelestid, part of an assemblage of herbivorous non-placental eutherian mammals also present in Europe, Asia and possibly Africa.