2018/01/01 by Anek R. Sankhyan, Olivier Chavasseau · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Computer Science · #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
paper · pdf · doi:10.26879/844
openalex publication_date 2018/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/17
We report here a number of dental fossil remains of proboscideans from Haritalyangar area of the Middle Siwaliks in Bilaspur District of Himachal Pradesh, North India collected by the first author (ARS) in different field seasons, who has also mapped the fossil localities. Most of these fossil localities fall in the Upper Alternations with very little explored previously. We have assigned the fossils into three main genera, Stegolophodon, ?Stegodon and Choerolophodon, besides a fossil fragment belonging to either a Gomphotheriidae or an Amebelodontidae. The choerolophodontid conforms well to Choerolophodon corrugatus, a common taxon in the Middle Siwaliks. Stegolophodon is richly represented in the proboscidean fossil record of the area distinguished into two species, one small indeterminate (Stegolophodon. sp.) and a larger one (S. cf. stegodontoides), which is a well-known representative of the genus in the Middle Siwaliks elsewhere. The topmost layers of the Upper Alternations have yielded remains that may belong to a derived stegodontid, Stegodon. These proboscidean fossils document a late Miocene assemblage and allow a correlation between the Upper Alternations and the Dhok Pathan Formation of the Middle Siwaliks and speak on the palaeoecology.