Fossils show hoofed animals may have originated in or near India

While felines trace ir origins to Egyptian provinces, a new study has found that hoofed mammals may have originated in or near present-day India. study published in Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology has stuck toger with a nearly complete picture of skeletal anatomy of hoofed mammals that lived on Indian subcontinent almost 55 million years ago.

Team assessed over 350 fossils

For purpose of study, a team of scientists assessed over 350 fossils of hoofed animals – a group of animals which include camels, horses, tapirs, hippos and rhis amongst ors. team, which also included Kishor Kumar from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Uttarakhand, uneard a sheep-sized animal with moderate running ability belonging to w-extinct genus of mammals called Cambayrium. 

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Following an analysis of same, y concluded that fossil possessed features that were intermediate between specialized hoofed mammals and ir more generalized forerunners. Comparing its bones with many or living and extinct mammals, y discovered that group of animals, to which fossil belonged, represents an evolutionary st more primitive than any kwn hoofed mammal.

After ir latest findings, scientists have doubled down on ir claim that group in or near India, which was a continent at that time continuously moving rthward till it collided with Asian continent. y concluded that group likely evolved in isolation in or near India 66-56 million years ago, before dispersing to or continents when land connection with Asia formed.  

“In 1990, Krause & Maas proposed that se (mammal) orders might have evolved in India, during its rthward drift from Madagascar, dispersing across rrn continents when India collided with Asia,” Ken Rose, lead author of study from Johns Hopkins University in US wrote.

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