Som Nath Kundal^1*, Upender Pachnanda², Sandeep Kumar³, Manzoor Ahmed Malik¹  and Nighat Choudhary¹

¹Department of Geology, University of Jammu, Jammu-180006 (JK), India

²House No. 408, Sector-5, Channi Himant, Jammu- 180015 (JK), India

³Department of Geology, Cluster University of Jammu, Jammu-180001(JK), India

(*Corresponding author, E-mail: snkundal123@yahoo.com)

Abstract

In this paper, a mandible bearing M2-M3 of Stegolophodon recovered from the Middle Siwalik Subgroup exposed in a river cutting section in Samah area of Sungal, Akhnur and 34kms northwest of Jammu city, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Based on the dental morphological parameters (length, width, crown height, shape of molar, lamellar frequency, hyspodonty index, number of lophids , number of conelets on the each lophid, shape of valley between lophids, enamel and dentine thickness, presence or absence of sulcus), the mandible have been identified as that of Stegolophodon cf. Stegolophodon latidens.

Keywords: Stegolophodon cf. latidens, Mohargarh Formation, Middle Siwalik, Outer Himalaya, Jammu Province