Abstract
The Indus Tsangpo Suture Zone representing the zone of collision between Greater India and Asian mainland comprises a variety of rock sequences, among which, the youngest sedimentary succession, the Indus Group, represents the first continental sedimentation in the India–Asia collision zone, the age of which, has been a subject of debate since long. Here we report a cricetid rodent from the basal part of the Indus Group exposed in the Indus Suture Zone near Taruche village, Leh district, Ladakh Himalaya, India. The newly recovered rodent tooth shows a combination of archaic cricetid traits and possesses a mesolophid concurrently with protolophid II. Based on the dental grade of evolution of the new tooth, an Oligo-Miocene age is assigned to the basal part of the Indus Group.
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