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Geochronological insights of middle miocene primates and vertebrate fauna of Ramnagar (J&K, India): Integrating litho-and magnetostratigraphy.

Choudhary, D., Gilbert, C.C., Campisano, C.J., Peppe, D.J., Arif, M., Singh, S.P., Tesfay, K., Patel, B.A., Wazir, W.A., Kumar, R. and Phartiyal, B.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343500

The Middle Miocene site of Ramnagar (Jammu and Kashmir), India is well-known for its fossil primates including Sivapithecus indicus, Kapi ramnagarensis, and Ramadapis sahnii. Although always suggested...

New paleomagnetic data from the Ladakh Molasse Group provides a Late Oligocene (26.5 Ma) age for the first post India-Asia collision continental sediments: Biostratigraphic implications.

Wazir W.A., Patnaik R., Arif M., Singh S. P., Phartiyal B., Gilbert C., Sehgal R. K., Choudhary D., Kumar R., Wazir M. A.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-025-02629-8

Being a part of the Indus Tsangpo Suture Zone (ITSZ), the Ladakh Molasse Group can provide important information about the first continental sedimentation in the India–Asia collision zone. Despite pre...

3D model related to the publication: A find from the Ladakh Himalaya reveals a survival of madtsoiid snakes (Serpentes, Madtsoiidae) in India through the Late Oligocene.

Wazir, W.A., Patnaik R., Sehgal R.K., Kumar N., Kumar R., Singh N. P., Wazir M. A. and Choudhary D.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18563/journal.m3.271

The present 3D Dataset contains the 3D model analyzed in Wazir, W. A., Sehgal, R. K., ˇ Cerˇnansk´y, A., Patnaik, R., Kumar, N., Singh, A. P. and Singh, N. P. 2022. A find from the Ladakh Himalaya re...

First report of Cylindracanthus (Osteichthyes) from the Eocene of India.

Kumar P., Patnaik R., Choudhary D., Kumar R. and Wazir W.A.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18563/pv.47.1.e2

Fossils of the endangered sturgeons and peddlefishes are widely distributed. We here report for the first time the presence of one of the extinct osteichthyes genus Cylindracanthus (Liedy 1856a) from...

First report on late Miocene (Tortonian:~ 11–10 Ma) charophyte gyrogonites from Tapar, Kachchh District, Gujarat State, western India.

Singh, N.A., Singh, N.P., Sharma, K.M., Patnaik, R., Tiwari, R.P., Sehgal, R.K., Kumar, V., Wazir, W.A., Singh, Y.P. and Choudhary, D.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43538-022-00102-4

This paper describes the first record of charophyte gyrogonites from the late Miocene (Tortonian; ~ 11–10 Ma) Tapar locality of Kachchh, Gujarat State, western India. The recovered charophyte assembla...

New rodents shed light on the age and ecology of late Miocene ape locality of Tapar (Gujarat, India).

Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P., Sharma, K.M., Singh, N.A., Choudhary, D., Singh, Y.P., Kumar, R., Wazir, W.A. and Sahni, A.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2022.2084701

The Miocene ape (Sivapithecus) locality of Tapar in Kutch (Gujarat, India) has yielded a diverse rodent assemblage that includes: a new murine Progonomys prasadi sp. nov., a new gerbilline Myocricetod...

First record of insectivore from the late Oligocene, Kargil Formation (Ladakh Molasse Group), Ladakh Himalayas.

Wazir, W.A., Cailleux, F., Sehgal, R.K., Patnaik, R., Kumar, N. and van den Hoek Ostende, L.W.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2022.100105

The Kargil Formation in the region of Ladakh (northern India) is known for its late Oligocene mammal fauna of both large mammals and rodents. New excavations in the area yielded a maxillary fragment o...

A find from the Ladakh Himalaya reveals a survival of madtsoiid snakes (Serpentes, Madtsoiidae) in India through the late Oligocene.

Wazir, W.A., Sehgal, R.K., Čerňanský, A., Patnaik, R., Kumar, N., Singh, A.P., Uniyal, P. and Singh, N.P.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.2058401

Wehere report on the first madtsoiid snake from the late Oligo cene of India (the molasse deposits of Ladakh Himalaya). Madt soiidae is an extinct group of medium sized to gigantic snakes, members...

3D models related to the publication: New remains of Nalamaeryx (Tragulidae, Mammalia) from the Ladakh Himalaya and their phylogenetical and palaeoenvironmental implications.

Wazir, W.A., Mennecart, B., Sehgal, R.K., Kumar, N. R., Uniyal, P., Patnaik, R. and Kumar, R.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18563/journal.m3.142

The present 3D Dataset contains the 3D models analyzed in Mennecart B., Wazir W.A., Sehgal R.K., Patnaik R., Singh N.P., Kumar N, and Nanda A.C. 2021. New remains of Nalamaeryx (Tragulidae, Mammalia)...

Paleomagnetic-based age estimates of primates and associated vertebrate fauna from the middle Miocene locality of Ramnagar (Jammu and Kashmir, India).

Choudhary, D., Campisano, C.J., Gilbert, C.C., Arif, M., Singh, S.P., Patel, B.A., Kumar, R., Wazir, W.A., Kumar, P., Phartiyal, B. and Patnaik, R.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24731

New fossil records from the late Oligocene Kargil Formation (Ladakh Molasse Group), Ladakh Himalayas: a window into the Palaeobiodiversity and palaeoenvironment of the region.

Wazir, W.A., Patnaik, R. and Sehgal, R.K.

DOI: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11851.55848

The Ladakh Molasse Group is a thick succession of continental clastic rocks consisting of shales, sandstones and conglomerates, which extend from Kargil in the west to Nyoma and Hanle in the east in t...

A virtual repository of Lower Siwalik Miocene fossils from Ramnagar (Udhampur District Jammu & Kashmir), India; Program of the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.

Patel, B.A., Gilbert, C.C., Sehgal, R.K., Singh, N.P., Di, A., Choudhary, D., Wazir, W.A., Campisano, C.J. and Patnaik, R.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24514

Vertebrate fossils have been known from Lower Siwalik Miocene deposits surrounding the town of Ramnagar (Udhampur District, Jammu & Kashmir) in northwest India since Barnum Brown’s Ame...

New remains of Nalamaeryx (Tragulidae, Mammalia) from the Ladakh Himalaya and their phylogenetical and palaeoenvironmental implications.

Mennecart, B., Wazir, W.A., Sehgal, R.K., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P., Kumar, N. and Nanda, A.C.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.2014479

Nalameryx savagei is one of the rare mammals found in India during the Oligocene. Five dental remains composed the originally found material, described in 1990. The first phylogenetic hypothesis propo...

Teleostei fish remains from the Miocene of Kutch, Gujarat, India: palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical implications

Wasim Abass Wazir, Ningthoujam Premjit Singh and Deepak Choudhary

The Neogene of Kutch, Gujarat, India is well known for its fossil vertebrate remains. However, almost nothing is known of the fresh and brackish water fishes from these deposits. We report here fresh...

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