A History of Agriculture in India v1.c11.s2.4

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Lewis (1934) reported a new genus *Ramapithecus* and proposed two species of this taxon. The name *Ramapithecus brevirostris* was assigned to the type consisting of a right maxilla and premaxilla, the alveolus of the canine, the root of I² and the alveolus of I¹, found 400 metres east of Chakrana which is situated about 6·5 kilometres east of the village of Haritalynagar in Himachal Pradesh. The other species, *Ramapithecus hariensis*, was assigned to the type consisting of a “fragment” of the right maxilla containing the first and second molars. This was found about 400 metres east of the village of Haritalynagar in Himachal Pradesh. The reconstruction of the skull of *Ramapithecus* is shown in Fig. 18.