Lammidhania

Taxobox
name = "Lammidhania"
status = fossil
fossil_range = early to middle Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Proboscidea
familia = Anthracobunidae
genus = "Lammidhania"
genus_authority = Gingerich, 1977
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "L. wardi" (Pilgrim, 1940)

"Lammidhania" is an extinct genus of an early proboscidean, elephant-like mammals, from the early to middle Eocene, discovered in 1940 in the Chorlakki locality of the Punjab province, Pakistan.

It is the smallest known anthracobunid, primitive amphibious ancestors of the proto-elephants Moeritheriidae.

References

* N.A. Wells and P.D. Gingerich. 1983. Review of Eocene Anthracobunidae (Mammalia, Proboscidea) with a new genus and species, "Jozaria palustris", from the Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan). Contrib. Mus. Pal. Univ. Michigan 26(7): 117-139.
* P. D. Gingerich. 1977. A small collection of fossil vertebrates from the middle Eocene Kuldana and Kohat Formations of Punjab (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 24(18): 190-203.