VERTEBRATE PALEOBIOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY SERIES

By ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

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) PALYNO?ORA 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 CON?RM 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 TO EURASIA IN LIGHT OF CHANGING TECTONICS AND CLIMATE