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THE AGE OF MAMMALS 



It is apparent, first, that there is every reason why the term 'SiwaUk* 

 shoul^ not be apphed to the Manchhar Zone; second, it is of interest to 

 note that these Manchhar and Bugti deposits are apparently of river and 



Fig. 136. — Map of India showing Tertiary formations containing fossil mammals (oblique 

 lines). 1. Manchhar Beds ; 2. Bugti Hills; 3. Perim Island ; 4. Punjab Si waliks ; 5. Sul> 

 himalayan Siwaliks ; 6. Beds of the Lower Irawadi. Modified from Oldham. 



flood-plain origin, like the great American deposits which we have been 

 considering. 



Middle Miocene Life of India 



These older mammals of western India (Manchhar and Bugti) are spoken 

 of by Schlosser * as the ' Anthracotheriura fauna ' because of the presence 

 of very large numbers of anthracotheres, large and small, including, beside 

 Brachyodus, an animal we have seen to be very typical of the Lower Mio- 

 cene of Europe, other species referred to Hyopotmnus and Anthracotherium, 

 and other mammals regarded as related to the anthracotheres, namely, 

 Hemimeryx and Sivameryx. From the Bugti Hills, Pilgrim described in 



' Schlosser, M., Die fossilen Saugethiere Chinas nebst einer Odontographie der recentea 

 Antilopen. Abh. k. bayer. Akad. Wiss., CI. II, Vol. XXII, Ft. 1, Munich, 1903. 



