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Sunil Bajpai is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in India, specializing in research related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on paleontology, contributing significantly to multiple subfields including paleontology, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, and atmospheric science.

The researcher's main topics cover paleontology and evolutionary biology, evolution and paleontology studies, ichthyology and marine biology, amphibian and reptile biology, geology and paleoclimatology research, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, and marine animal studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sunil Bajpai include Abhayanand Singh Maurya, Krishna Kumar, Triparna Ghosh, Debasish Bhattacharya, and Pragya Pandey.

Their recent publications appear mainly in the following venues:

  • Historical Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Episodes
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Paläontologische Zeitschrift

Recent papers by Sunil Bajpai include:

  • "Fossils of the oldest diplodocoid dinosaur suggest India was a major centre for neosauropod radiation," 2023, Scientific Reports
  • "Hybodont sharks from the Jurassic of Jaisalmer, western India," 2021, Historical Biology
  • "First Miocene rodents from Kutch, western India," 2021, Historical Biology
  • "Biostratigraphy, palaeoenvironment and sea level changes during pre-collisional (Palaeocene) phase of the Indian plate: palynological evidence from Akli Formation in Giral Lignite Mine, Barmer Basin, Rajasthan, Western India," 2020, Episodes
  • "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (∼17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India," 2022, Paläontologische Zeitschrift

Best Publications

  • 40K–40Ar dating of the Main Deccan large igneous province: Further evidence of KTB age and short duration

    Anne-Lise Chenet;Xavier Quidelleur;Frédéric Fluteau;Vincent Courtillot

  • Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of India

    J. G. M. Thewissen;Lisa Noelle Cooper;Lisa Noelle Cooper;Mark T. Clementz;Sunil Bajpai

  • Main Deccan volcanism phase ends near the K-T boundary: Evidence from the Krishna-Godavari Basin, SE India

    G. Keller;T. Adatte;S. Gardin;A. Bartolini

  • From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises

    J. G. M. Thewissen;Lisa Noelle Cooper;Lisa Noelle Cooper;John C. George;Sunil Bajpai

  • 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 Eocene archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from India and the time of origin of whales

    Sunil Bajpai;Philip D. Gingerich

  • Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes

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

  • Early Eocene warming events and the timing of terrestrial faunal exchange between India and Asia

    Mark Clementz;S. Bajpai;V. Ravikant;J.G.M. Thewissen

  • Sound transmission in archaic and modern whales: anatomical adaptations for underwater hearing.

    Sirpa Nummela;Sirpa Nummela;J.G.M. Thewissen;Sunil Bajpai;Taseer Hussain

  • Eocene evolution of whale hearing

    Sirpa Nummela;J. G. M. Thewissen;Sunil Bajpai;S. Taseer Hussain

  • Deccan volcanism, the KT mass extinction and dinosaurs

    Gerta Keller;A. Sahni;S. Bajpai

  • Early Eocene land mammals from the Vastan Lignite Mine, District Surat (Gujarat), western India

    Sunil Bajpai;Vivesh V. Kapur;Debasis P. Das;B. N. Tiwari

  • Cretaceous age for Ir‐rich Deccan intertrappean deposits: palaeontological evidence from Anjar, western India

    S. Bajpai;G. V. R. Prasad

  • Palynofacies and sedimentology-based high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the lignite-bearing muddy coastal deposits (early Eocene) in the Vastan Lignite Mine, Gulf of Cambay, India

    Vandana Prasad;Indra Bir Singh;Sunil Bajpai;Rahul Garg;Rahul Garg

  • Cretaceous extinctions: evidence overlooked.

    Gerta Keller;Thierry Adatte;Alfonso Pardo;Sunil Bajpai

  • Evolution of cetacean osmoregulation

    J. G. M. Thewissen;L. J. Roe;J. R. O'Neil;S. T. Hussain

  • Early Eocene snakes from Kutch, Western India, with a review of the Palaeophiidae

    Jean-Claude Rage;Sunil Bajpai;Johannes G. M. Thewissen;Brahma N. Tiwari

  • Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan Are Stem Perissodactyls

    Lisa Noelle Cooper;Lisa Noelle Cooper;Erik R. Seiffert;Mark Clementz;Sandra I. Madar

  • Early Danian Planktic Foraminifera From Cretaceous-Tertiary Intertrappean Beds At Jhilmili, Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh, India

    G. Keller;S. C. Khosla;R. Sharma;A. Khosla

  • Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Events: The Fossil Vertebrate, Palaeomagnetic and Radiometric Evidence from Peninsular India

    Ashok Sahni;Sunil Bajpai

  • Age-diagnostic dinoflagellate cysts from the lignite-bearing sediments of the Vastan lignite mine, Surat district, Gujarat, western India

    Rahul Garg;Khowaja Ateequzzaman;Vandana Prasad;S. K. M. Tripathi

  • Isotopic Approaches to Understanding the Terrestrial-to-Marine Transition of the Earliest Cetaceans

    Lois J. Roe;J. G. M. Thewissen;Jay Quade;James R. O’Neil

  • Early eocene primates from Vastan lignite mine, Gujarat, western India

    Sunil Bajpai;Vivesh V. Kapur;J. G. M. Thewissen;Debasis P. Das

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashok Sahni
Ashok Sahni Panjab University
Gerta Keller
Gerta Keller Princeton University
Thierry Adatte
Thierry Adatte University of Lausanne
Richard F. Kay
Richard F. Kay Duke University
Indra Bir Singh
Indra Bir Singh University of Lucknow
Silvia Gardin
Silvia Gardin Sorbonne University
Jorge E. Spangenberg
Jorge E. Spangenberg University of Lausanne
Vincent Courtillot
Vincent Courtillot Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Annachiara Bartolini
Annachiara Bartolini French National Museum of Natural History
James R. O'Neil
James R. O'Neil United States Geological Survey

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