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Eocene Rodents From New Localities in Himachal Pradesh, Northwest Himalaya, India: Biochronologic Implications


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1 Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33 General Mahadeo Singh Road, Dehradun 248 001, India
2 Department of Geology, Punjab University, Chandigarh - 160 014, India
3 Department of Geology, Lucknow University, Lucknow - 226 007, India
     

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The report of Eocene rodents from Himachal Pradesh is of considerable biochronologic and biogeographic significance. It corroborates that the Eocene rodent-yielding horizons at the top of the Subathu formation in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh (India) and of the Kuldana Formation in Pakistan are in the same time frame. It also extends the geographic range of the Eocene chapattimyid rodents to about 300 km east of earlier known localities in Rajauri and Reasi districts, Jammu and Kashmir.

Keywords

Palaeontology, Eocene, Rodentia, Suhathu Formation, Himachal Pradesh.
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Kishor Kumar
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33 General Mahadeo Singh Road, Dehradun 248 001, India
R. S. Loyal
Department of Geology, Punjab University, Chandigarh - 160 014, India
Rahul Srivastava
Department of Geology, Lucknow University, Lucknow - 226 007, India

Abstract


The report of Eocene rodents from Himachal Pradesh is of considerable biochronologic and biogeographic significance. It corroborates that the Eocene rodent-yielding horizons at the top of the Subathu formation in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh (India) and of the Kuldana Formation in Pakistan are in the same time frame. It also extends the geographic range of the Eocene chapattimyid rodents to about 300 km east of earlier known localities in Rajauri and Reasi districts, Jammu and Kashmir.

Keywords


Palaeontology, Eocene, Rodentia, Suhathu Formation, Himachal Pradesh.