Early Eocene fossils suggest that the mammalian order Perissodactyla originated in India

KD Rose, LT Holbrook, RS Rana, K Kumar… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Cambaytheres (Cambaytherium, Nakusia and Kalitherium) are recently discovered
early Eocene placental mammals from the Indo–Pakistan region. They have been assigned …

Anthracobunids from the middle Eocene of India and Pakistan are stem perissodactyls

LN Cooper, ER Seiffert, M Clementz, SI Madar… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Anthracobunidae is an Eocene family of large mammals from south Asia that is commonly
considered to be part of the radiation that gave rise to elephants (proboscideans) and sea …

[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) …

[HTML][HTML] New early Eocene vertebrate assemblage from western India reveals a mixed fauna of European and Gondwana affinities

T Smith, K Kumar, RS Rana, A Folie, F Solé, C Noiret… - Geoscience …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ypresian Cambay Shale Formation at Vastan and Mangrol lignite mines in
Gujarat, western India, has yielded a rich vertebrate fauna with numerous taxa of European …

A macroevolutionary pathway to megaherbivory

O Sanisidro, MC Mihlbachler, JL Cantalapiedra - Science, 2023 - science.org
Several scenarios have been proposed to explain rapid net size increases in some early
Cenozoic mammalian lineages: sustained and gradual directional change, successive …

[PDF][PDF] Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum at sand creek divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

KD Rose, AE Chew, RH Dunn, MJ Kraus, HC Fricke… - 2012 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
The boundary between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs of the Paleogene period is
associated with a dramatic episode of global change in climate, geochemical cycles, and …

Early Eocene plant megafossil assemblage of western India: Paleoclimatic and paleobiogeographic implications

A Shukla, RC Mehrotra - Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 2018 - Elsevier
The early Eocene is characterized by a warmer phase, even at high latitudes. The CO 2
level ranged from 1000 to 2000 ppm due to the increase in volcanic activity. The climate …

Small artiodactyls with tapir-like teeth from the middle Eocene of the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China

B Bai, YQ Wang, JM Theodor, J Meng - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Artiodactyls diversified during the Eocene and Oligocene in North America and Europe after
their first Holarctic appearance at the beginning of the Eocene. However, the relationships …

The inner ear of Diacodexis, the oldest artiodactyl mammal

MJ Orliac, J Benoit, MA O'leary - Journal of Anatomy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We provide the first detailed description of the inner ear of the oldest artiodactyl, D iacodexis,
based on a three‐dimensional reconstruction extracted from computed tomography imagery …

Early Eocene frogs from vastan lignite mine, Gujarat, India

A Folie, RS Rana, KD Rose, A Sahni, K Kumar… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2012 - BioOne
The Ypresian Cambay Shale Formation of Vastan Lignite Mine in Gujarat, western India, has
yielded a rich vertebrate fauna, including the earliest modern mammals of the Indian …