Ramadapis sahnii - type locality (Miocene of India)

Where: Jammu and Kashmir, India (32.8° N, 75.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 76.5° E)

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

• The exposure at Sunetar 2 is ~26 m thick and, like the rest of the Ramnagar sequence, is characterized by reddish brown mudstones, paleosols, and occasional thin (<1 m), very fine-grained sands sandwiched between two massive sandstones. There is a pseudo- conglomerate layer composed primarily of mud pebbles, nodules, and concretions that becomes more concretionary at Sunetar 1, where it is full of coprolites and micro- and macro-vertebrate re- mains. The repetitive sequence of thick sandstones overlain by reddish brown mudstones and paleosols is pervasive throughout the Ramnagar sequence and represents major fluvial channels (sandstones) and overbank/floodplain deposits (mudstones/pale- osols). The new sivaladapid specimen was collected atop an ~5 m thick massive sandstone at the base of the Sunetar 2 exposure, but was derived from higher up in the sequence based on its preservation and lack of sand matrix.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C.C. Gilbert, B.A. Patel, N.P. Singh, C.J. Campisano, J.G. Fleagle, K.L. Rust, and R. Patnaik. 2017. New sivaladapid primate from Lower Siwalik deposits surrounding Ramnagar (Jammu and Kashmir State), India. Journal of Human Evolution 102:21-41 [G. Slater/A. Wisniewski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201477: authorized by Graham Slater, entered by Anna Wisniewski on 08.05.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Sivaladapidae
Ramadapis sahnii Gilbert et al. 2017 primate