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2025
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- The rise of vertebrate paleontology in post‐independence India: A personal perspective Ashok Sahni The Anatomical Record Abstract The paper discusses the status of the subject of vertebrate paleontology after the Independence of India in 1947. Paleontology enjoyed success in India during the 1950s and 1960s as there was gainful employment for foraminiferal stratigraphy in the Petroleum Industry. As institutions with special thrust areas such as Geophysics, Geomagnetism, Himalayan Geology, Ocean Sciences multiplied in time, paleontology became ignored or neglected as a professional option. In the 1980s, an opportunity arose for vertebrate paleontology to become integrated with other geoscience subjects in India. It contributed initially in providing a timing for the India‐Asia collision, for the age of the Deccan Volcanics and also for documenting the fauna and its affinities during India's northward journey from Madagascar to its final collision with Asia. The discovery of dinosaurs along with Cretaceous eggs and nests, the evolution of whales, the find of Eocene primates, lagomorphs, and the endemic form Cambaytherium and its bearing on horse evolution have radically helped in changing older concepts regarding origin, endemism, and relationships of taxa in a geodynamic context. New material from the Middle Eocene of the Kalakot area provides a more complete picture of the evolution of whales, faunal diversity, and environmental conditions of the assemblage that migrated into India during the collision process. Today, discoveries of fossil vertebrates attract interest from academia, the general public particularly the younger population and the Indian media. 10.1002/ar.70121 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor