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

ABSTRACT: 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 as similar in age to the Chinji Formation of the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan, no precise geochronological age estimates of Ramnagar have yet been obtained. Furthermore, despite some notable previous efforts, the stratigraphic section in the Ramnagar region has not been satisfactorily documented. Therefore, it has long been unclear exactly how the fossil localities around Ramnagar relate to each other or to other Middle Miocene Siwalik localities stratigraphically or chronologically. Here we present new paleomagnetic and revised stratigraphic data for most of the Ramnagar primate-yielding localit

SUBMITTER: Choudhary D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12944786 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature