Correction: First record of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus from Kutch, Gujarat state, western India

Bhandari, Ansuya; Kay, Richard F.; Williams, Blythe A.; Tiwari, B. N.; Bajpai, Sunil; Hieronymus, Tobin L.

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“…The Miocene deposits of Kutch, India is well known for its diverse fossil assemblages comprising of foraminifers, molluscs, chondrichthyan, teleostean, reptilian and mammalian remains (Wynne 1872;Lydekker 1876;Venkatappaya 1955;Sahni & Mishra 1975;Sahni & Mehrotra 1981;Bhandari et al 2009Bhandari et al , 2015Bhandari et al , 2018Kulkarni et al 2010;Patnaik et al 2014;Kapur et al 2019;Singh et al 2019Singh et al , 2020Sharma et al 2021;and references therein). Recent, geological field work conducted in the middle Miocene (c. 14 ± 2 Ma, Kapur et al 2019) deposits of Chhasra Formation at Palasava localities of Kutch, Gujarat, India have yielded teeth of elasmobranch, teeth, bones and spines of teleosts.…”

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Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the middle Miocene deposits of Palasava, Kutch, India:implication for paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography

SINGH¹,

CHOUDHARY²,

SINGH³

et al. 2022

Comptes Rendus Palevol

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The Neogene of Kutch, India is well known for its rich marine and terrestrial vertebrate assemblages. However, the data of piscean fauna from the middle Miocene of India is very scarce. We report here additional chondrichthyan and osteichthyan remains from the middle Miocene deposit of Chhasra Formation, Palasava site, Kutch, Gujarat, India. The elasmobranchs include Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816 (C. brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839), C. falciformis (Müller & Henle, 1839), C. cf. leucas, C. aff. perezi, Carcharhinus sp.), Negaprion Whitley, 1940 (Negaprion sp.), Aetobatus Blainville, 1816 (Aetobatus sp.), Myliobatis Cuvier, 1816 (Myliobatis sp.), Dasyatis Rafinesque, 1810 (D. probsti Cappetta, 1970, D. rugosa Probst, 1877), Himantura Müller & Henle, 1837 (H. menoni Sahni & Mehrotra, 1981), Pastinachus Rüppell, 1829 (Pastinachus sp.), and Taeniurops Garman, 1913 (Taeniurops sp.). The teleosts of Palasava are represented by four families including Bagridae Bleeker, 1858, Channidae Fowler, 1934, Characidae Latreille, 1925 and Cyprinidae Cuvier, 1817. Sørensen-Dice coefficient data of Palasava elasmobranchs show a good similarity index with their counterparts in the Mediterranean Sea suggesting the existence of short-lived reopening of the marine pathway. However, a much higher faunal affinity with those of Eastern Pacific indicates a gradual shift in migration path through the Pacific Ocean to Indo-Pacific region after the permanent landbridge was formed. The vertebrate fauna from the Palasava suggests a coastal, marginal marine, near-shore littoral to neritic environment of deposition with the influence of freshwater riverine system. The integration of the floras and faunas from Palasava locality indicates the presence of warm, humid/wet, tropical to sub-tropical environmental conditions during the middle Miocene.

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Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the middle Miocene deposits of Palasava, Kutch, India:implication for paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography

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SINGH³

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Human Evolution in the Center of the Old World: An Updated Review of the South Asian Paleolithic

Chauhan¹

2020

Pleistocene Archaeology - Migration, Technology, and Adaptation

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The Indian Subcontinent was an important geographic region for faunal and hominin evolution in Asia. While the Oldowan as the earliest technocomplex continues to be elusive, the oldest Acheulean is dated to ~1.5 Ma and the early Middle Paleolithic is ~385 ka (from the same site). New Late Pleistocene dates have been reported for the Middle Paleolithic which continues up to 38 Ka in southern India. The Upper Paleolithic remains ambiguous and requires critically multidisciplinary investigations. The microlithic evidence appears to spread rapidly across the subcontinent soon after its emergence at ~48 Ka (though its origin is debated) and continues into the Iron Age. The timeline of the initial arrival of Homo sapiens continues to be debated based on the archaeology (advanced Middle Paleolithic vs. microlithic) and genetic studies on indigenous groups. Other issues that need consideration are: interactions between archaics and arriving moderns, the marginal occurrence of symbolic behavior, the absolute dating of rock art and the potential role of hominins in specific animal extinctions and ecological marginalization. The region does not appear to have been a corridor for dispersals towards Southeast Asia (although gene flow may have occurred). Instead, once various prehistoric technologies appeared in the Subcontinent, they possibly followed complex trajectories within relative isolation.

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Correction: First record of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus from Kutch, Gujarat state, western India

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Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the middle Miocene deposits of Palasava, Kutch, India:implication for paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography

Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the middle Miocene deposits of Palasava, Kutch, India:implication for paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography

Human Evolution in the Center of the Old World: An Updated Review of the South Asian Paleolithic

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