Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics New Perspectives on Post Gondwana Break up A Tribute to Ashok Sahni Guntupalli 3030497534 9783030497538

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030497534
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783030497538
• Author: Guntupalli V.R. Prasad

This book recognizes and celebrates the contributions of Professor Ashok Sahni to the field of paleontology. Prof. Sahni established a School of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, where he trained many of today’s vertebrate paleontologists of India. The book covers topics on evolutionary patterns, macroevolutionary events, origination and radiation events, changes in physical environments & climate and their implications for biodiversity dynamics, intercontinental affinities and biogeographic connections in a plate tectonic framework.  The book begins by exploring India in the age of the dinosaurs, discussing new fossil remains from the Jurassic Era, then moves through the Cretaceous and Eocene to provide a picture on faunal and floral changes in Gondwanaland in the context of plate tectonics. Furthermore, the book explores the evolutionary patterns and biotic dispersals that resulted from the northward drift of Indian plate during the Cretaceous and its collision with Asia in the Eocene. The respective chapters reveal the role of plate tectonics and climate in shaping the geographical distribution of plants and animals in Gondwana, specifically in India, as well as the post-India/Asia collision implications for biodiversity changes and biogeography in the region’s continental environments.

Table of contents:

1. First Ornithischian and Theropod Dinosaur Teeth from the Middle Jurassic Kota Formation of India: Paleobiogeographic Relationships

2. Upper Gondwana (Jurassic to Early Cretaceous) Palynoflora of India: Its Correlation with Other Gondwana Continents and Phytogeographical Implications

3. A Third, Remarkably Small, Tribosphenic Mammal from the Mesozoic of Australia

4. Evidence for a Remarkably Large Toothed-Monotreme from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia

5. Role of Plate Tectonics and Global Climate Change in the Evolution of Angiosperms

6. Anuran Lissamphibian and Squamate Reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Deccan Intertrappean Sites in Central India, with a Review of Lissamphibian and Squamate Diversity in the Northward Drifting Indian Plate

7. Chelonian Pelomedusoides Remains from the Late Cretaceous of Upparhatti (Southwestern India): Systematics and Paleobiogeographical Implications

8. The Age of Dinosaurs in the Land of Gonds

9. Leaving Gondwana: The Changing Position of the Indian Subcontinent in the Global Faunal Network

10. Island Africa and Vertebrate Evolution: A Review of Data and Working Hypotheses

11. Contrasting Biomarker Signatures of Cretaceous and Early Paleogene Coal-Bearing Sediments During the Northward Flight of India

12. New Specimens of Frugivastodon (Mammalia: Apatotheria) from the Early Eocene of India Confirm Its Apatemyid Status and Elucidate Dispersal of Apatemyidae

13. Size Variation Amongst the Non-volant Mammals from the Early Eocene Cambay Shale Deposits of Western India: Paleobiogeographic implications

14. Indohyus, Endemic Radiation of Raoellid Artiodactyls in the Eocene of India and Pakistan

15. The Murine Cradle

16. New Data on the Siwalik Murines, Rhizomyines and Ctenodactylines (Rodentia) from the Indian Subcontinent

17. Dispersal of Miocene Hominoids (and Pliopithecoids) from Africa

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