First record of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus from Kutch, Gujarat state, western India.
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2018-01
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Hominoid remains from Miocene deposits in India and Pakistan have played a pivotal role in understanding the evolution of great apes and humans since they were first described in the 19th Century. We describe here a hominoid maxillary fragment preserving the canine and cheek teeth collected in 2011 from the Kutch (= Kachchh) basin in the Kutch district, Gujarat state, western India. A basal Late Miocene age is proposed based on the associated faunal assemblage that includes Hipparion and other age-diagnostic mammalian taxa. Miocene Hominoidea are known previously from several areas of the Siwalik Group in the outer western Himalayas of India, Pakistan, and Nepal. This is the first record of a hominoid from the Neogene of the Kutch Basin and represents a significant southern range extension of Miocene hominoids in the Indian peninsula. The specimen is assigned to the Genus Sivapithecus, species unspecified.
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Bhandari, Ansuya, Richard F Kay, Blythe A Williams, Brahma Nand Tiwari, Sunil Bajpai and Tobin Hieronymus (2018). First record of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus from Kutch, Gujarat state, western India. PloS one, 13(11). p. e0206314. 10.1371/journal.pone.0206314 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/21372.
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Blythe A. Williams
My research has focused on the evolutionary relationships (phylogenetics) and ecological adaptations of Primates from a paleontological perspective. I’m also interested in the evolutionary history of human dance. My current teaching includes Dance Science, Ethics in Evolutionary Anthropology, and Becoming Human.
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