''Sahnitherium'' is a possible basal Euarchontan from the

Maastrichtian The Maastrichtian () is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. It spanned the interval from ...

of the

Intertrappean Beds The Intertrappean Beds are a Late Cretaceous geologic formation in India. The beds are found as interbeds between Deccan Traps layers. Indeterminate theropod and pterosaur remains have been recovered from the formation, as well as dinosaur eggs ...

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. It may be closely related to ''

Deccanolestes ''Deccanolestes'' is a scansorial, basal Euarchontan from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and Paleocene Intertrappean Beds of Andhra Pradesh, India. It may be closely related to '' Sahnitherium''. ''Deccanolestes'' has been referred to Palae ...

.'' The

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several ...

is an upper molar, and it is the only specimen of ''Sahnitherium''.

References

Prehistoric eutherians Cretaceous mammals Extinct animals of India Prehistoric mammal genera {{cretaceous-mammal-stub