查看文章

A rich collection of vertebrate fossils comprising mainly fish and some mammals has recently been recovered from subsurface beds of the Cambay Shale (Lower Eocene) exposed in the Vastan Lignite Mine, Surat District, Gujarat. Here we record a diverse assemblage of elasmobranch and teleostean fish, including the selachians Triakis, Eogaleus, Abdounia, Rhizoprionodon and Eutrichiurides, which are new to the subcontinent. The Vastan ichthyofauna has general affinities with the Palaeocene–Eocene fish assemblages from northern Africa, Europe and Uzbekistan, but it is most closely similar to faunas known from Rajasthan and the northwest sub-Himalaya.