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Discovery ofElephas cf.namadicus from the late Pleistocene strata of Marginal Ganga Plain

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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 ofElephas from the Indian subcontinent. Although it shows very near resemblance toElephas namadicus, but being an isolated specimen its specific identity cannot be proclaimed with certainty. As such, the specimen is provisionally referred asE. cf.namadicus. The Optically Stimulated Luminescence ages place this find at ~56 ka BP. This is the first chronologically well constrained report ofE. cf.namadicus from the Ganga Plain.

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  1. Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, 248 001, India

    Rupa Ghosh, R. K. Sehgal, Pradeep Srivastava & A. C. Nanda

  2. Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, India

    U. K. Shukla

  3. Centre of Advanced Study in Geology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, 226 007, India

    D. S. Singh

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Ghosh, R., Sehgal, R.K., Srivastava, P.et al. Discovery ofElephas cf.namadicus from the late Pleistocene strata of Marginal Ganga Plain.J Geol Soc India88, 559–568 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-016-0521-7

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