Gandakasia

Gandakasia is an extinct genus of ambulocetid from Pakistan, that lived in the Eocene epoch. It probably caught its prey near rivers or streams.

Gandakasia Temporal range: 47.8–41.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Lutetian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Whippomorpha
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	†Ambulocetidae
Genus:	†Gandakasia Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958
Species:	†G. potens
Binomial name
†Gandakasia potens Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958[2]

Just like Himalayacetus, Gandakasia is only known from a single jaw fragment, making comparisons to other ambulocetids difficult.^[3]

The first ambulocetid to be described, Gandakasia was not initially recognized as a cetacean.^[4]

Gandakasia probably inhabited a freshwater niche similar to the pakicetids.^[3]