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Ashok Sahni

Ashok Sahni

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Earth Science
India
2025

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Citations
6799
World Ranking
4087
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2005 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Ashok Sahni is affiliated with Panjab University in India and specializes in research across multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on paleontology and related subfields, incorporating aspects of nature and landscape conservation, geophysics, soil science, and atmospheric science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including evolution and paleontology studies, paleontology and evolutionary biology, stratigraphy of fossils, geology and paleoclimatology research, ichthyology and marine biology, bat biology and ecology studies, as well as geological and geophysical studies.

Recent publications by Ashok Sahni include:

  • "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" (2020, Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthroplogy series/Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series)
  • "A diversified Ostracoda (Crustacea) assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous intertrappean beds of Gujri, Dhar District, Madhya Pradesh, India" (2021, Cretaceous Research)
  • "Vertebrate evolution on the Indian raft - Biogeographic conundrums" (2020, Episodes)
  • "First record of Erinaceidae and Talpidae from the Miocene Siwalik deposits of India" (2022, Historical Biology)
  • "Cretaceous insular India - Consequences for biological evolution and faunal interchanges" (2022, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India)

Ashok Sahni has also contributed to educational literature, with book publications through Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi eBooks. Two titles include Block-3 Introduction to Palaeontology and Block-2 Stratigraphy of India, both published in 2020.

Throughout their career, Ashok Sahni has collaborated frequently with various researchers. Regular coauthors include:

  • Guntupalli V. R. Prasad
  • Deepak Singh Kshetrimayum
  • Omkar Verma
  • Rigzin Norboo
  • Rahul Magotra

Their work has appeared in scientific venues such as:

  • Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthroplogy series/Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Episodes
  • Historical Biology
  • Palaeoworld

Ashok Sahni's professional recognition includes the award of Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, received in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Dinosaur Coprolites and the Early Evolution of Grasses and Grazers

    Vandana Prasad;Caroline A. E. Strömberg;Habib Alimohammadian;Ashok Sahni

  • Cosmopolitanism among Gondwanan Late Cretaceous mammals

    David W. Krause;G. V. R. Prasad;Wighart von Koenigswald;Ashok Sahni

  • Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota in amber from the early Eocene of India.

    Jes Rust;Hukam Singh;Rajendra S. Rana;Tom McCann

  • Late Cretaceous origin of the rice tribe provides evidence for early diversification in Poaceae

    V. Prasad;C.A.E. Strömberg;A.D. Leaché;B. Samant

  • K-T transition in Deccan traps of central India marks major marine seaway across India

    G. Keller;T. Adatte;S. Bajpai;D.M. Mohabey

  • A New Abelisaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Lameta Formation (Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) of India

    Jeffrey A. Wilson;Paul C. Sereno;Suresh Srivastava;Devendrak K. Bhatt

  • Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes

    J. David Archibald;W. A. Clemens;Kevin Padian;Timothy B Rowe

  • High bat (Chiroptera) diversity in the Early Eocene of India.

    Thierry Smith;Rajendra S. Rana;Pieter Missiaen;Kenneth D. Rose

  • First Cretaceous mammal from India

    G. V. R. Prasad;Ashok Sahni

  • THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGIC AND CLIMATIC RECORD OF THE KASHMIR VALLEY, INDIA: A REVIEW AND NEW DATA

    D.P. Agrawal;Rekha Dodia;B.S. Kotlia;H. Razdan

  • Early Eocene Primates from Gujarat, India

    Kenneth D. Rose;Rajendra S. Rana;Ashok Sahni;Kishor Kumar

  • Deccan volcanism, the KT mass extinction and dinosaurs

    Gerta Keller;A. Sahni;S. Bajpai

  • Early Eocene lagomorph (Mammalia) from Western India and the early diversification of Lagomorpha.

    Kenneth D. Rose;Valerie Burke DeLeon;Pieter Missiaen;R. S. Rana

  • Palaeogene palaeobiogeography of the Indian subcontinent

    Ashok Sahni;Vimal Kumar

  • New geochronological, paleoclimatological, and archaeological data from the Narmada Valley hominin locality, central India

    Rajeev Patnaik;Parth R. Chauhan;M.R. Rao;B.A.B. Blackwell

  • Biodiversity during the Deccan volcanic eruptive episode

    A. Khosla;A. Sahni

  • Early Eocene fossils suggest that the mammalian order Perissodactyla originated in India

    Kenneth D. Rose;Luke T. Holbrook;Rajendra S. Rana;Kishor Kumar

  • Indraloris And Sivaladapis - Miocene Adapid Primates From The Siwaliks Of India And Pakistan

    Philip D. Gingerich;Ashok Sahni

  • Cretaceous-paleocene terrestrial faunas of India: lack of endemism during drifting of the Indian plate.

    Ashok Sahni

  • Eutherian mammals from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Intertrappean Beds of Naskal, Andhra Pradesh, India

    G. V. R. Prasad;J. J. Jaeger;Ashok Sahni;E. Gheerbrant

  • The vertebrate fauna of the Judith River Formation, Montana. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 147, article 6

    Ashok. Sahni

Frequent Co-Authors

Sunil Bajpai
Sunil Bajpai Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Kenneth D. Rose
Kenneth D. Rose Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Thierry Smith
Thierry Smith Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Jean-Jacques Jaeger
Jean-Jacques Jaeger University of Poitiers
Bahadur Singh Kotlia
Bahadur Singh Kotlia Kumaun University
Gerta Keller
Gerta Keller Princeton University
Anjali Goswami
Anjali Goswami Natural History Museum
Gerald Mayr
Gerald Mayr Senckenberg Naturmuseum
James R. O'Neil
James R. O'Neil United States Geological Survey
Philip D. Gingerich
Philip D. Gingerich University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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