Late Quaternary Vertebrate Fossils from the Sagileru Valley, Andhra Pradesh

In the course of Quaternary biostratigraphic study in the interior river valleys of Andhra Pradesh, vertebrate fossils belonging to Antilope cervicapra and species of Bos, Cervus and Equus have been recorded in the Sagileru valley in Cuddapah district. Fossils were found on the eroded surface of the ossiferous alluvial silts lying above a volcanic ash bed. Palaeolithic side scrappers and blades fashioned out of chert and quartzite were also found in the alluvial silts. Faunal content, nature of sediments and their position above the volcanic ash unit suggest a Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene age for the fossiliferous beds.