A Late Pliocene Baby Stegodon cf. Stegodon insignis (Proboscidea) from Upper Siwalik of Samba District, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Kundal, Som Nath; Bhadar, Gyan; Kumar, Sandeep

doi:10.31870/esi.10.3.2017.7

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“…Most fossilized teeth were found in the Indian part of the Siwalik Hills (also known as Siwaliks) (Figure 2). These are foothills of the Himalayas, which are well known for the occurrence of Miocene-Pleistocene vertebrate fossils (Abbas et al, 2018(Abbas et al, , 2019Kumar et al, 2017;Patnaik et al, 2018). These fossils are extremely valuable in studies on paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, and geological evolution of the Himalayas.…”

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Teeth of Past and Present Elephants: Microstructure and Composition of Enamel in Fossilized Proboscidean Molars and Implications for Diagenesis

Białas

Prymak

Singh

et al. 2021

Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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Enamel as hardest biological tissue remains unaltered for millions of years and is therefore an excellent archive for studies on paleodiet, paleoecology, paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, biomechanical, and evolutionary studies. However, diagenetic alterations can influence such interpretations and therefore we analyzed the microstructure and composition (elemental and stable isotopic) of fossil and extant proboscidean teeth to study the extent of diagenesis in them. We report for the first time on the enamel microstructure data of the Indian elephantiformes Anancus, Stegodon, Elephas, and Palaeoloxodon besides analyzing Gomphotherium and Deinotherium from new formations. Furthermore, we compare their microstructure with those of the primitive African taxa of Moeritherium and Palaeomastodon. Our results from depth‐related elemental composition and oxygen isotope ratios of enamel phosphate and carbonate indicate no or only negligible modification. There is also a lack of age‐dependency of these minor alterations within the fossils collected from Siwaliks of the Himalayan Foreland Basin. Overall, our study indicates that diagenesis has not played any significant role on the samples studied here and are therefore well suited for chemical and paleontological studies and proxy for paleoclimate and paleoenvironment reconstruction.

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Teeth of Past and Present Elephants: Microstructure and Composition of Enamel in Fossilized Proboscidean Molars and Implications for Diagenesis

Białas

Prymak

Singh

et al. 2021

Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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“…Mus flynni. From another site, Labli again below the volcanic ash layer, Kundal et al (2017a) discovered one complete molar of a baby Stegodon, belonging to Stegodon cf. Stegodon insignis.…”

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Himalayan Cenozoic biotas and climate: an overview of recent advances

Bajpai¹,

Singh²,

Patnaik³

et al. 2020

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The early Cenozoic was a turning point in the geological history of the Indian subcontinent as it was during this interval that the Indian plate collided with Asia, leading to profound changes in global climates, faunal and floral evolution, orogeny and oceanography. Later Cenozoic records include those from the well known Siwalik successions which continue to yield important data relevant to age refinements of critical horizons including those yielding fossil hominoids, as well as for our understanding of the influence of climate change on the evolution of a diverse group of vertebrates including mammals. Studies on Himalayan Neogene floras have yielded phytogeographically important data as well as valuable insights in to paleotemperature and paleoprecipitation regimes. This report presents an overview of important recent contributions on the fossil fauna and flora, paleoenvironments and paleoclimates from the Himalayan Cenozoic sedimentary sequences.

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Human exploitation of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon) in Middle Pleistocene deposits at Pampore, Kashmir, India

Bhat,

Ashton,

Parfitt

et al. 2024

Quaternary Science Reviews

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A Late Pliocene Baby Stegodon cf. Stegodon insignis (Proboscidea) from Upper Siwalik of Samba District, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Teeth of Past and Present Elephants: Microstructure and Composition of Enamel in Fossilized Proboscidean Molars and Implications for Diagenesis

Teeth of Past and Present Elephants: Microstructure and Composition of Enamel in Fossilized Proboscidean Molars and Implications for Diagenesis

Himalayan Cenozoic biotas and climate: an overview of recent advances

Human exploitation of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon) in Middle Pleistocene deposits at Pampore, Kashmir, India

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