Metkatius

Metkatius, named after the town of Metka in the province Jammu and Kashmir, is a small extinct raoellid artiodactyl which inhabited northern India during the Middle Eocene (48-45 Mya) during the Early Lutetian age. Metkatius is known from fragmentary remains, with the only discovered fossil remains being mandibular and maxillary fragments and isolated teeth, mainly belonging to juvenile specimens and a portion of the skeleton of a juvenile, a fragmentary skull, vertabrae, and a forelimb. There is only one accepted species of Metkatius, M. kashmiriensis, which is named after Kashmir.