Sahnitherium

Sahnitherium
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: ?Euarchontoglires
(unranked): ?Euarchonta
Genus: Sahnitherium
Rana & Wilson, 2003
Species
  • S. rangapurensis Rana & Wilson, 2003 (type)

Sahnitherium is a possible basal Euarchontan from the Maastrichtian of the Intertrappean Beds of Andhra Pradesh, India. It may be closely related to Deccanolestes. The holotype is an upper molar, and it is the only specimen of Sahnitherium. [1]

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