Nakusia

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = Early Eocene

|taxon = Nakusia

|authority = Ginsburg et al., 1999

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision =

• N. shahrigensis Ginsburg et al., 1999

}}

Nakusia is an extinct genus of ungulate from the early Eocene epoch, described in 1999 in the Ghazij formation of Baluchistan, Pakistan. It was classified as an anthracobunid in 1999Ginsburg L.; Durrani, K. H.; Kassi, A. M.; Welcomme J.-L., Discovery of a new Anthracobunidae (Tethytheria, Mammalia) from the Lower Eocene lignite of the Kach-Harnai Area in Baluchistan (Pakistan), Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2. Sciences de la terre et des planètes (C. r. Acad. sci., Sér. 2, Sci. terre planet.), 1999, vol. 328, no3, pp. 209-213 but was suggested in a 2014 cladistic analysis to be more likely to belong to Quettacyonidae or Cambaytheriidae.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0109232| pmid = 25295875| title = Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan Are Stem Perissodactyls| journal = PLOS ONE| volume = 9| issue = 10| pages = e109232| date = 2014-10-08| last1 = Cooper | first1 = L. N. | last2 = Seiffert | first2 = E. R. | last3 = Clementz | first3 = M. | last4 = Madar | first4 = S. I. | last5 = Bajpai | first5 = S. | last6 = Hussain | first6 = S. T. | last7 = Thewissen | first7 = J. G. M.| pmc=4189980| bibcode = 2014PLoSO...9j9232C| doi-access = free}}