Abstract
The South Asian artiodactyl genus Indohyus contains two species: I. indirae and I. major. Indohyus is the senior synonym of several other genera: Raoella, Kunmunella, Metkatius and Haqueina (in part). The dental morphology of a large collection of I. indirae from the locality Sindkhatudi in Jammu & Kashmir is described here. While morphological variation in teeth is significant, there are no discrete features that could be used to recognize more than one species.
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Thewissen, J.G.M., Nanda, A.C., Bajpai, S. (2020). Indohyus, Endemic Radiation of Raoellid Artiodactyls in the Eocene of India and Pakistan. In: Prasad, G.V., Patnaik, R. (eds) Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49753-8_14
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