Kunmunella
| Kunmunella Temporal range: Ypresian, | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Family: | †Raoellidae |
| Genus: | †Kunmunella Sahni and Khare, 1971 |
| Type species | |
| †Indohyus kalakotensis Ranga Rao, 1971 | |
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K. kalakotensis synonymy
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Kunmunella is an extinct raoellid artiodactyl which inhabited what is now northern India during the middle-upper Eocene (Ypresian). There are two species of Kunmunella: K. kalakotensis and K. transversa. The former species was named after the town of Kalakote within Jammu and Kashmir, the place from which it was found, while the latter species was named after the transverse nature of the upper teeth. K. kalakotensis is known from a palate with its respective teeth, a left maxillary ramus, a left mandible, two poorly preserved maxillas, and two isolated molars. K. transversa is known from only a right maxilla.