{"id":1051,"date":"2016-05-03T16:13:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/?page_id=1051"},"modified":"2021-04-17T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T10:03:06","slug":"india-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/?page_id=1051","title":{"rendered":"<\/span> India 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Second expedition at Tadkeshwar Lignite mine<\/span><\/h5>\n

After the excellent results of the 2015 field campain, a new join Indian-American-Belgian team (Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Garhwal University, Johns Hopkins University, Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences) excavated for fossil vertebrates in Tadkeshwar Lignite Mine. Several important primate specimens were discovered and this time the expedition was supported by the Leakey Foundation. Some layers exploited in 2015 were unfortunately no more accessible due to the fast progression of lignite digging by the mining compagny. However, more specimens were collected from the channel deposit discovered previously. Rock samples were also collected for microfossil and isotope analyses.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"0101 Section partially covered by a huge cone of sediment making some layers excavated in 2015 no more accessible<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0202 The work begins slowly to relocate fossil layers. From front to back: Kishor Kumar (Wadia Inst.), Satich (Garhwal Univ.), Thierry Smith (RBINS), Ken Rose (Johns Hopkins Univ.)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0303 Ken Rose (Johns Hopkins Univ.) has located a fossil layer<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0404 The paleontologists are cleaning the outcrop<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0505 From left to right: Rajendra S. Rana and his student Satich (Garhwal Univ.) found vertebrate remains<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0606 Thierry Smith (RBINS, right) prepares a jaw fragment discovered by Satich (Garhwal Univ., left)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0707 Several pieces of a jaw fragment of the horse-like Cambaytherium are put together<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0808 From left to right: Kishor Kumar (Wadia Inst.) and Satich (Garhwal Univ.) collect lost fragments of the Cambaytherium jaw by dry screening<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0909 Bananas and water at lunch time for all the team!<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1010 Thierry Smith screen-washes the sediment to find microvertebrate remains<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1111 The screenwashed residue dries under the Indian sun<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Second expedition at Tadkeshwar Lignite mine After the excellent results of the 2015 field campain, a new join Indian-American-Belgian team (Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Garhwal University, Johns Hopkins University, Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences) excavated for fossil vertebrates in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/contact.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1051\/revisions\/2863"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}