In a rare discovery, teeth of new species of hybodontshark of Jurassic age have been reported for the first time from Rajasthan's Jaisalmer, the Ministry of Mines informed on Wednesday. The discovery was made by a team of officers comprising Krishna Kumar, Pragya Pandey, Triparna Ghosh and Debasish Bhattacharya from the Geological Survey of India (GSI), Western Region, Jaipur.
Finding has been published in Historical Biology, a Journal of Palaeontology of International repute, in its August, 2021, 4th issue. Prof. Dr. Sunil Bajpai, Head of the Department, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Roorkee, who is a co-author of this publication, played a significant role in the identification and documentation of this important discovery, the ministry said.
Source: Livemint
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