Gandakasia

Gandakasia; Temporal range: Early Eocene, 49 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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.^[2]

The first ambulocetid to be described, Gandakasia was not initially recognized as a cetacean.^[3] Like modern forms they were already fully aquatic.^[4]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg 1958.
^ Thewissen, JGM. "Ambulocetidae: The First Coastal Whales". Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved February 2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Thewissen & Williams 2002, p. 79
^ Konami Ando, Shin-ichi Fujiwara, Farewell to life on land – thoracic strength as a new indicator to determine paleoecology in secondary aquatic mammals, First published: 10 July 2016 DOI: 10.1111/joa.12518

References

Dehm, Richard; Oettingen-Spielberg, Therese zu (1958). Paläontologische und geologische Untersuchungen im Tertiär von Pakistan. 2. Die mitteleocänen Säugetiere von Ganda Kas bei Basal in Nordwest-Pakistan. Abhandlungen / Neue Folge, 91. Munich: Beck. OCLC 163296508. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Thewissen, J.G.M.; Williams, E.M. (2002). "The Early Radiations of Cetacea (Mammalia): Evolutionary Pattern and Developmental Correlations" (PDF). Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 33: 73–90. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.020602.095426. OCLC 4656321698. Retrieved February 2013. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)^{[permanent dead link]}

This prehistoric cetacean-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[FOOTNOTEDehmOettingen-Spielberg1958-1] Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg 1958.

[2] Thewissen, JGM. "Ambulocetidae: The First Coastal Whales". Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved February 2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[ThewWill2002-3] Thewissen & Williams 2002, p. 79

[4] Konami Ando, Shin-ichi Fujiwara, Farewell to life on land – thoracic strength as a new indicator to determine paleoecology in secondary aquatic mammals, First published: 10 July 2016 DOI: 10.1111/joa.12518

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]