Early Eocene primates from Vastan Lignite mine, Gujarat, Western India
By S. Bajpai, V. Kapur, J. Thewissen, D. Das, B. N. Tiwari, Ritu Sharma, N. Saravanan. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 2005
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A new primate fauna of early Eocene (Ypresian, approximately 52 Ma) age is reported from the Vastan Lignite Mine, District Surat, Gujarat, western India. From the Indian subcontinent, this is the oldest known Cenozoic rocord as well as the largest single sample of Eocene primates, consisting of 3 fragmentary jaws and 4 isolated upper cheek teeth. The assemblage comprises at least three, but possibly 4 taxa, of which only two are being named here, an adapiform Marcgodinotius indicus n. gen. & n. sp., and an omomyid Vastanomys gracilis n. gen. & n. sp., distinguished mainly on the basis of their lower dental formula and lower molar characteristics. The fauna indicates considerable diversity of Eocene primates in Indo-Pakistan and is important in understanding early primate evolution in Asia and the mammalian dispersal into, or out of, from India in response to changing paleogeographic settings associated with the initiation of India-Asia collision.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology, Social Psychology
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- Fossil Record of the Primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene (2014, background): “Marcgodinotius indicus was named by Bajpai et al. (2005), Asiadapis cambayensis by Rose et al.”
- New early Eocene vertebrate assemblage from western India reveals a mixed fauna of European and Gondwana affinities (2016, background): “Comments Several specimens of Cambaytherium from the upper level at Tadkeshwar are similar in size and nearly all aspects of morphology to C. thewissi from Vastan (Bajpai et al., 2005a; Rose et al., 2014).”