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Fossil Bovidae from Late Miocene Dhok Pathan Formation of Siwaliks, Northern Pakistan

Fossil Bovidae from Late Miocene Dhok Pathan Formation of Siwaliks, Northern Pakistan

Sayyed Ghyour Abbas1, Muhammad Adeeb Babar1,*, Muhammad Akbar Khan1, Kiran Aftab2, Ayesha Riaz3, Abdul Ghaffar4 and Muhammad Akhtar1

1Dr. Abu Bakr Fossil Display and Research Centre, Zoology Department, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Punjab University, Lahore
2Zoology Department, University of Gujrat, Gujrat
3Department of Zoology, GC Women University, Faisalabad
4Meteorology Department, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad

*      Corresponding author: babar.441@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

New bovid remains are recovered from Dhok Pathan type locality of Northern Pakistan. The assemblage presents seven bovid species Pachyportax latidens, P. cf. nagrii, Selenoportax cf. vexillarius, Tragoportax punjabicus, T. cf. salmontanus, Elachistoceras khauristanensis and Gazella lydekkeri. The boselaphines are predominant at the type locality. The taxa are consistent with a Late Miocene-Early Pliocene age of the deposits. The findings expand our knowledge on the dental anatomic features of the described species that existed in the Middle Siwalik Subgroup during the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene.

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Pakistan Journal of Zoology

October

Pakistan J. Zool., Vol. 56, Iss. 5, pp. 2001-2500

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