TNPSC Thervupettagam

Ape fossil – Kutch Basin

November 18 , 2018 2117 days 775 0
  • The Palaeontologists have unearthed a fossilised upper jaw (maxilla) in Kutch basin, Gujarat.
  • It is the oldest and the only known ape fossil discovered in peninsular India.
  • The upper jaw belonged to an adult ape (hominoid family), belonging to the genus Sivapithecus and lived about 11-10.8 million years ago (Miocene).

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