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COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages 721-737Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2017.01.002
Keywords
Adapisoriculidae; Cambay Shale; Early Eocene; Gondwana; India; Mammal
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- Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India [SR/FTP/ES-49/2012]
- J.C. Bose National Fellowship [SR/S2/JCB-14/2010]
- Research Development and Coordination Cell (RDCC), BSIP, Lucknow [43/2015]
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Based on well-preserved lower dentition, a new adapisoriculid from the Cambay Shale Formation (basal Eocene, similar to 54.5 Ma) in the open cast lignite mine of Vastan, Gujarat State, western India, is described. Indolestes kalamensis gen. et sp. nov adds significantly to the diversity of basal eutherians from Vastan as it represents a family hitherto not known from the Eocene of the Indian Subcontinent. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that Indolestes is derived relative to Deccanolestes and Afrodon, but primitive relative to the European adapisoriculids Bustylus and Adapisoriculus. The new data from the early Eocene provide evidence for continued survival of a Gondwanan mammal lineage following the Deccan volcanic activity (Cretaceous-Paleogene transition) in the Indian Subcontinent. (C) 2017 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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