Were the Himalayan regions at any time in the bed of the sea?
Did the huge pre-historic animals which it is difficult to visualize, even by guess, at any time roam over these wide expanses?
Speculation on these lines no doubt, be encouraged by the finds of marine fossils in these regions, reported in the annual report of the Geological Survey of India for 1936.
Thus among the fossils collected by Mr, N. K. N. Iyengar of the Geological Survey of India, from the Udhampur area (Kashmir), there are some which have been provisionally identified as Arius (fish), found in the Lower Siwaliks Hydaspitherium, found in the Middle Siwaliks, and Hippopotamus, found in the Upper Siwaliks Other discoveries giraffe, include rhinoceros, stegodon and elephas. Of the collection made by Mr. Iyengar in this area a stegodon skull found near Parmandal has already been handed over to the Kashmir Durbar, and the Siwalik fossils are also being returned to them after identification.
A few vertebrate fossils from the Siwaliks of the Attack district stored in the Campbellpore Museum were sent to the Department by the Deputy-Commissioner of the District for identification. The specimens, consisting of isolated bones, which in the case of the Proboscidians, do not lend themselves to specific determination, unless more complete skeletons are available, were referred to the genus Mastodon. The genus Rhinoceros is also recorded among the remains. These fossils were returned after identification, and" a popular account of the Siwalik mammals, together with some photographs of restoration certain extinct reptiles and mammals, was presented to the Campbellpore Museum
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