First Tillodont from India: Additional Evidence for an Early Eocene Faunal Connection between Europe and India?

2009/06/01 by Kenneth D. Rose, R. S. Rana, Ashok Sahni +3 · 31 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Mathematics · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Paleontology #Connection (principal bundle) #Geology #Fauna #Geography #Ecology #Biology #Geometry #Mathematics

paper · pdf · doi:10.4202/app.2008.0067

published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(2), 351-355 (Institute of Paleobiology)

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Abstract

The fauna comes from the Cambay Shale Formation and has been dated as middle Ypresian (~52 Ma, early Cuisian) based on a common nummulitid foraminiferan from about 15 m above the vertebrate-producing layer

Citations

• High bat (Chiroptera) diversity in the Early Eocene of India
• Stratigraphic and micropaleontological constraints on the middle Eocene age of the mammal-bearing Kuldana Formation of Pakistan
• Early Eocene lagomorph (Mammalia) from Western India and the early diversification of Lagomorpha
• Early Eocene (Ypresian) continental vertebrate assemblage from India, with description of a new anthracobunid (Mammalia, Tethytheria)

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• Tillodontia [wikipedia]