The named bone-bed material was assigned to Indohyus and Raoellidae and recovered as sister to Cetacea in the source analysis; it is not crown Cetacea or direct ancestry.
claim:taxon:indohyus:taxonomyIndohyus
Separately catalogued skulls, limb bones and teeth support an aquatic-wading interpretation and a raoellid sister placement to Cetacea in the published analysis.
Represented range48–47 Ma
Content packagecetartiodactyla
PBDBtxn:42349
Evidence boundary
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Claim ledger
The profile is limited to the Sindkhatudi bone bed near Kalakot and does not define the full geographic range of Indohyus or Raoellidae.
claim:taxon:indohyus:biogeographyBone density and stable isotopes support aquatic or wading use, while diet, gait and habitual behaviour remain inferred from disarticulated material.
claim:taxon:indohyus:ecologyRR 207–208 document the involucrum, RR 157 and RR 42 dense long bones, and separate teeth provide the isotope sample.
claim:taxon:indohyus:morphologyThe 48–47 Ma envelope represents the bounded bone-bed context, not a global Indohyus FAD, LAD, cetacean origin date or lineage duration.
claim:taxon:indohyus:fossil-rangeKnown limits
- A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.
References
- Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of IndiaThewissen, J.G.M.; Cooper, L.N.; Clementz, M.T.; Bajpai, S.; Tiwari, B.N. · 2007 · DOI 10.1038/nature06343
- Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
- The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
- Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology DatabaseThe Paleobiology Database Community; Kocsis, Á.T. · 2026 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21620933