{"id":1712,"date":"2018-09-22T14:52:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T12:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/?page_id=1712"},"modified":"2021-04-17T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T10:05:04","slug":"india-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/?page_id=1712","title":{"rendered":"<\/span> India 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Third expedition at Tadkeshwar Lignite mine<\/span><\/h5>\n

The Indian-American-Belgian team returned to Tadkeshwar Lignite Mine in February 2017 to collect new specimens of early Eocene vertebrates. The crew was composed of Rajendra Singh Rana, Waqas Mirza, and Raman Patel (Garhwal Univ.), Kishor Kumar (Wadia Inst.), Ken Rose (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Rachel Dunn (Des Moines Univ.), Annelise Folie and Thierry Smith (RBINS). Layers between the two main lignite seams were well exposed but relatively poor in terrestrial vertebrates. This was due to the rarity of continental lenses in that part of the exploited mine. Nevertheless, numerous remains of aquatic animals and some terrestrial mammals were discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"0101 Sector of mining activities where paleontologists found a fossil layer a few meters below the upper main lignite seam.<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0202 Annelise Folie shows a vertebra of the aquatic snake Palaeophis found by Raman Patel (back left)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0303 Kishor Kumar digs a small continental lens that yield terrestrial mammals<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0404 Ken Rose prefers to lie on the ground to find small bones<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0505 Discovery of a bat humerus<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0606 Rachel Dunn (front) and other members of the crew explore another part of the mine in order to find new fossil layers<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0707 Large fossil seeds are common in Tadkeshwar<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0808 Annelise Folie takes notes of the location of each specimen discovered before digitization in databasis<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0909 Two types of bivalves found in another dark clay layer suggest a brakish paleoenvironment<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1010 Waqas Mirza (front) and Rajendra Rana (back) find a very thin layer with vertebrate remains<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1111 The thin layer is full of small fish bones<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1212 Thierry Smith screen-washes a sediment especially rich in small shark and ray teeth<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1313 Beautifull small birds are intriguing by the screen-washing<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1414 The crew at the end of the expedition<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Third expedition at Tadkeshwar Lignite mine The Indian-American-Belgian team returned to Tadkeshwar Lignite Mine in February 2017 to collect new specimens of early Eocene vertebrates. The crew was composed of Rajendra Singh Rana, Waqas Mirza, and Raman Patel (Garhwal Univ.),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1712\/revisions\/2866"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}