[PDF][PDF] Early Paleogene mammal faunas of India: a review of recent advances with implications for the timing of initial India-Asia contact

VV Kapur, N Carolin, S Bajpai - Himalayan Geology, 2022 - researchgate.net
In recent years, a series of discoveries of a diverse early Eocene (~ 54.5 Ma) terrestrial
mammal fauna from the open-cast lignite mines of western India (District Surat, Gujarat) …

Current developments in Paleogene vertebrate palaeontology in view of India's final drift phase and India–Eurasia docking: an appraisal

VV Kapur - Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 2024 - Springer
This article aims to present an overview of the Paleogene vertebrate faunal records,
especially mammals, with an emphasis on research conducted within the last 5 years ie …

Fossil lizards from the Deccan intertrappean beds (latest Cretaceous/earliest Paleocene) of lower Narmada basin, Malwa Plateau, India

R Yadav, S Bajpai, AS Maurya, A Čerňanský - Historical Biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We here report on the first lizard fossils from the Deccan intertrappean strata (latest
Cretaceous/Palaeocene) exposed at Kesavi, District Dhar in the Malwa Plateau of lower …

Gujaratia indica, the oldest artiodactyl (Mammalia) from South Asia: new dental material and phylogenetic relationships

A Rautela, S Bajpai - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Diacodexeids are widely considered to be a paraphyletic group consisting of the oldest and
most primitive artiodactyls that made their sudden appearance in all northern continents …

[HTML][HTML] First record of insectivore from the late Oligocene, Kargil Formation (Ladakh Molasse Group), Ladakh Himalayas

WA Wazir, F Cailleux, RK Sehgal, R Patnaik… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Kargil Formation in the region of Ladakh (northern India) is known for its late
Oligocene mammal fauna of both large mammals and rodents. New excavations in the area …

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G Bechly - Evolution - evolutionnews.org
In December 2022 I began a series of articles at Evolution News about the abrupt origins of
placental mammal orders, of which the latest installation was published in February 2023 on …

[PDF][PDF] India as a “Noah's Ark” before collision with Eurasia: Paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography of the continental early Eocene vertebrate fauna of Gujarat

T Smith - Paper presented at the meeting of the Section of …, 2022 - kaowarsom.be
For the past twenty years, an Indian-American-Belgian team has carried out twelve seasons
of collaborative field work in search of vertebrates from the Cambay Formation in lignite …