Discovery of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Elephas</Emphasis> cf. <Emphasis Type="Italic">namadicus</Emphasis> from the late Pleistocene strata of Marginal Ganga Plain |
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| Authors: | Rupa Ghosh R K Sehgal Pradeep Srivastava U K Shukla A C Nanda D S Singh |
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| Institution: | 1.Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology,Dehradun,India;2.Department of Geology,Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi,India;3.Centre of Advanced Study in Geology,University of Lucknow,Lucknow,India |
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| Abstract: | We describe an elephant skull recovered from a cliff section of Dhasan river of Marginal Ganga Plain. The dental morphology and cranial features of the skull have been compared with the known species of Elephas from the Indian subcontinent. Although it shows very near resemblance to Elephas namadicus, but being an isolated specimen its specific identity cannot be proclaimed with certainty. As such, the specimen is provisionally referred as E. cf. namadicus. The Optically Stimulated Luminescence ages place this find at ~56 ka BP. This is the first chronologically well constrained report of E. cf. namadicus from the Ganga Plain. |
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