A Skull of <I>Equus Namadicus</I> from the Middle Pleistocene Alluvial Deposits of Narmada Valley

Abstract

An extinct species of Equidae, Equus namadicus, is known from the Quaternary alluvial sediments of Narmada valley of central India since the nineteenth century. However, the type skull of the species now in the Natural History Museum of London has never been described systematically. One more skull recovered from the Middle Pleistocene deposits of the same area has been identified as that of E.namadicus and is designated here as paratype of the species. It is one of the largest species of Equus and larger than other Indian species of the genus. Study shows that some specimens of Equus from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Siwaliks may be assigned to E. namadicus