Iqbal Umer Cheema*, Lawrence J. Flynn **& Abdul Rahim Rajpar *
*Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad, Pakistan
**Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA,
Abstract - An isolated deposit near the village Ganda Paik and the larger town Lehri, Jhelum District, northern Pakistan, yielded a small collection of Muridae (Mammalia, Rodentia). The Lehri fossil locality, PMNH 93128, contains important material of extinct species earlier based on a few specimens from an early Pleistocene locality in the Pabbi Hills, Pakistan. The material includes upper dentition of Golunda kelleri, originally named for a few lower molars, and lower dentition of Hadromys loujacobsi, first known by upper molars. These fossils are slightly older, probably only 300,000 years, than the respective hypodigms, and are geographically close. They indicate the likely morphology of the complementary elements of each species. They clarify the significance of other older material from Pliocene localities in India, and suggest that Golunda and Hadromys both had complex phylogenetic histories. The locality also produced smaller murids, including at least one species of Cremnomys and a mouse near Mus jacobsi. The Lehri fauna is like other Pliocene assemblages distributed across the Indian subcontinent, and indicates ecological heterogeneity, as well as zoogeographic ties to East Africa.