Siwalik Hills


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Si·wa·lik Hills

 (sĭ-wä′lĭk)
A range of the southern Himalaya Mountains extending about 1,690 km (1,050 mi) from southwest Kashmir through northern India into southern Nepal. The hills are noted for their extensive fossil remains.
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Pilgrim (1926) and Lydekker (1884) described several specimens of Hippopotamodon sivalense from theLate Miocene of the Siwalik Hills but with different names.
The small Siwalik giraffids disappeared after the middle Miocene from the Siwalik Hills of Pakistan (ca.
Earlier, the skulls of a nine million-year-old anthracothere, Merycopotamus medioximus, and a contemporaneous fossil hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon sivalensis) were found in Pakistan's Siwalik Hills, according to Berkeley.
According to the notifications, Mohammad Khaled Siddiq Ch S/o Mohammad Siddiq Ch has been granted the degree in the subject of Zoology after approval of his thesis entitled " Taxonomic Studies of Mammalian Remains from the Siwalik Hills of Sardhok, Punjab, Pakistan".
According to the notifications, Muhammad Khaled Siddiq Ch S/o Muhammad Siddiq Ch has been granted the degree in the subject of Zoology after approval of his thesis entitled " Taxonomic Studies of Mammalian Remains from the Siwalik Hills of Sardhok, Punjab, Pakistan".
Haryana is wedged between Northern India's Siwalik Hills, the Aravalli Range and semi-desert sandy plains of Rajasthan in the south and the Yamuna-Ghaggar plains in the east.
Physiographically there are main four units: Siwalik Hills, valleys, piedmont plain and alluvial/ flood plain.
The Siwalik Hills consisting of sandstones, mudstone and conglomerates, form the sub-Himalayan lithotectonic unit of the Himalayan tectonic system and extend for over 2000 km from Kohat Plateau (northern Pakistan) in the west to the eastern syntaxial bend in India (Fig.
Based on Hagen (1960), Nepal includes seven physiographic zones: Terai, Siwalik Hills (including Chure Hills, Dun Valleys or Inner Terai such as Dang Valley, Chitwan Valley and Trijuga Valley), Mahabharat Lekh, Midlands (or Pahad), The Himalaya, High Mountain Valleys, and Tibetan Marginal Mountains (or Trans-Himalaya) (RBGE, n.d.).
However, still some forests are secured along Char koshe Jhadi (8-mile long dense subtropical forest between the plains and Siwalik Hills) and most of the Chitwan National Park.
These specimens provide additional information about the recorded cervid species and contribute to recent work from the Middle Siwalik Hills of Pakistan.