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Asia - South Asia - India |
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Taxonomy - Evolution |
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Indian Rhino |
Period 8000-1200 BC - Rajasthan
Reported earlier from Langhnaj, N. Gujarat and from Lothal, a famous chalcolithic site.
Excavations in 1972-73 around Kaneval, 20 km NW of Xambay. Semifossilized bones were collected:
(1) two pieces of cervical vertebrae from Khaksar, on southern side of Kaneval lake.
(2) a cervical vertebra from Valotri village, 8 km north of Tarapur on Anand-Cambay railway;
(3) proximal end of tibia from chalcolithic mound on northern side of Kaneval Lake.
Evidence shows that rhino existed in the swampy, grassy and wooded forest areas of Gujarat in period 8000 BC to 1200 BC.
Along median condyle of tibia there are certain deep cut marks which indicate that it might have been used as an anvil of some other purpose.
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Great Indian rhinoceros inhabited Gujarat
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