Contents

Foreword

M. R. Sahni

Academician Jurij Alexandrovich Orlov

R. Hecker

On the oldest Archidiskodon elephant from the Anthropogene of the U.S.S.R.

V. E. Garutt,
L. I. Alexejeva &
V. S. Baigusheva

About the hyoideum, sternum and metacarpale V bones of Elasmohtheriurn sibiricum Fischer (Rhinocerotidae)

E. I. Belyaeva

Evolutionary modifications of the teeth structure in the Palaeozoic Crossop­terygii

E. I. Varobyeva

On new finds of Sivatheriinae on the Territory of the U.S.S.R.

A. Ya Godina

Primate Paradolichopithecus sushkini sp. nov. from the upper Pliocene of the Pamirs Piedmont

B. A. Trofirnov

A history of Elephants of the Archidiskodon- Marnrnuthus phylogenetic line on the territory of the USSR

I. A. Dubrovo

Morphology of skull of Asiatic Eocene Tapiroid (Lophialetes expeditus Matthew et Granger, 1925) (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Tapiroidea)

V. Y. Reshetov

Phylogenetic relations between fossil and recent Agnatha

L. I. Novitskaya

Monophylia and polyphylia in the origin of mammals

L. P. Tatarinov

Metazoic cycle in the organic world development

V. N. Druschits &
V. N. Shimansky

Intercontinental distribution of mammals and their importance for palaeobiogeo­graphy of Asian Eocene

I. M. Novodvorskaja & N. M. Janovskaja

Gigantic Bisons of Asia

C. C. Flerow

A review of the historical development of the Cetacea

G. A. Mchedlidze

Morphology of fossil elementary organogenous buildings

I. T. Zhuravleva &
Ye I. Miagkova

Tajikistan's and India's fossil Alcelaphinae

E. L. Dmitrieva

The study of Dinosaurs in Asia

A. K. Rozhdestvensky

The evolution of the rodent family Ctenodactylidae

Albert E. Wood

   Mesozic Tetrapods and the northward migration of India

Edwin H. Colbert

Permian lake faunas: A study of community evolution

Everett C. Olson

Fossil amphibians from the Miocene of the north Caucasus, USSR

Richard Estes &
Ilya Darevsky

Chuaria circularis Walcott and other Precambrian Fossils from the Grand Canyon

Trevor D. Ford &
William J. Breed

Les Insectivores et Chiropteres du Paleogene moyen d'Europe dans 1'histoire des faunes de Mammiferes surce continent

Bernard Sigé

On Claraia of Kashmir and Iran

Keiji Nakazawa

The debt of Palaeontology to Haematite

Raymond A. Dart

Conceptual revolutions and geological education

D. V. Ager

A new Sirenian from Kutch, India

R.J.G. Savage &
B.S. Tewari

On an Anthracothere upper molar from Ladakh, Kashmir

R. J. G. Savage, Prakash C. Dixit &
D. A. N. Murty

Late Neogene fish faunas from Angola, their age and significance

Miguel Telles Antunes

lnfundibulipora huckriedei n. sp. (Bryoz. Cyclostomata) from the upper Cretaceous of Iran and western Europe (with remarks on the genus lnfundibulipora Brood, 1972)

Ehrhard Voigt

Migrations and non-migrations of Proboscideans (Mammalia) via Bering Strait land bridge in the late Cenozoic

Heinz Tobien

Late Campanian Pseudoceratites from Israel and Jordan

Zeev Lewy

The Mohenjo-Daro floods reconsidered

R. L. Raikes &
G. F. Dales

The Morphology and palaeobiology of Linnarssonella girtyi Walcott (Acrotretid inarticutate brachiopod)

Shou-Hwa Chuang

The impact of the palaeontological treatises on biological and earth sciences

J. B. Waterhouse

A Permian cold water marine fuana in the Grant Formation of the Canning Basin, Western Australia

J. M. Dickins,
R. R. Towner &
R. W. A. Crowe

Biogeographic patterns in Australian Cainozoic ostracoda, with the description of Orlovibairdia new genus

K. G. McKenzie

Vindhyan palaeobiology, stratigraphy and depositional environments: A critical review

M. R. Sahni

Cancroid crabs from the Quilon Beds (Lower Miocene) of Kerala, India

K. K. Verma

First Record of a middle Palaeolithic fossil from Gujarat, India

G. L. Badam

Neogene/Quaternary boundary in the Siwalik

M. V. A. Sastry &
A. K. Dutta

A study of Stromatolites from the Bijawars of Madhya Pradesh (India)

S. Lakshmanan,
N. P. Patel & B. Das

Late Jurassic nannoplankton from the Jurassic sequence in the subsurface of the Banni Rann Kutch

Pratap Singh

Sub-Recent Ostracodes from tehsil Charkhi Dadri, district Mahendragarh, southern Haryana

S. B. Bhatia &
S. C. Khosla

Pastannah section of Kashmir with special reference to 'Ophiceras' bed of Middlemiss

H. M. Kapoor

New species of Iranoleesia  from the Cambrian rocks of Kashmir, India

V. J. Gupta &
I. J. Suneja

A new Lituolid genus from the middle Eocene of Rajasthan, India

S. N. Singh &
Prabha Kalia

Recent freshwater ostracodes from Chilka Lake Area

S. P. Jain

A new fossil Pelomedusid turtle from the upper Cretaceous Pisdura sediments, Central India

Sohan Lall Jain

Comments on some Quaternary Ostracode taxa from northwest India

Devinder Singh

Review of Miocene Anthropoidea from India and adjacent countries

K. N. Prasad

A new Eocene Louvar from Barmer, southwestern Rajasthan, India

Ashok Sahni & Nagendra K. Choudhary

Lithostratigraphy, structure, depositional environment, palaeoccurrent and trace fossils of Tethyan sediments of MalIa Johar area, Pithoragarh-Chamoli districts, Uttar Pradesh, India

S. Kumar, I.B. Singh
& S.K. Singh