Recent paleontological investigations of six sections fringing the Deccan volcanic outcrops of the Indian peninsula indicate that terrestrial faunas during the Cretaceous-Paleocene transition lacked the endemism predicted by geophysical models of an oceanically isolated Indian subcontinent. At the generic and familial level there is a close correspondence between the Cretaceous vertebrates of p...

The Phytocreneae (Icacinaceae) are a tribe of scrambling shrubs and lianas presently distributed in tropical Africa, Madagascar, and Indo-Malesia. We describe the oldest known fossils of this tribe and provide the first recognition of this group in the Neotropical fossil record based on distinctive fruit remains. Palaeophytocrene piggae sp. nov., from the late Paleocene of western North America...

Abstract Besides nitrate deposits located in the Atacama Desert of Chile and Mojave California, present work documents, for first time, occurrence potassium as oval-suboval-shaped aggregations associated with Late Maastrichtian-Early Paleocene Dakhla Shale Paleocene-Early Eocene Esna encountered northeastern part Kharga Oasis, particularly at G. Um El-Ghanayem Ghaneima. Consequently, integrated...

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is associated with major extinctions in the deep ocean, and significant paleogeographic ecological changes surface ocean terrestrial environments. However, impact of environmental change on shelf biota less well understood. Here, we present a new PETM record low paleolatitude shallow-marine carbonate platform from Meghalaya, NE India (eastern Tethys)....