Siwalik Hills

[ si-wah-lik ]

noun

1. Siwalik Range, a range in N India, S Nepal, and N Pakistan, in the S Himalaya Mountains.

Example Sentences

The first fossil specimen was found by the Scottish geologist Hugh Falconer and the English engineer Proby Thomas Cautley on an expedition to the Siwalik hills in India in the 1830s.

From BBC

In 1834 he published a geological description of the Siwalik hills, in the Tertiary strata of which he had in 1831 discovered bones of crocodiles, tortoises and other animals; and subsequently, with conjoint labourers, he brought to light a sub-tropical fossil fauna of unexampled extent and richness, including remains of Mastodon, the colossal ruminant Sivatherium, and the enormous tortoise Colossochelys Atlas.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1969, after re-evaluating the fragmentary remains of a monkey-size creature called Ramapithecus —found in India's Siwalik Hills and first described by Yale Paleontologist G.E.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dryopithecus, a big forest ape that lived in the Siwalik hills of India in Miocene times, before the Glacial Age, is the common ancestor of man, the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and other primates.

From Time Magazine Archive

The nearest allies of the anoa appear to be certain extinct buffaloes, of which the remains are found in the Siwalik Hills of northern India.

From Project Gutenberg