Deepak choudhary

About

Dr. Deepak Choudhary is an Assistant Professor (Contractual) in the Department of Geology at Cluster University Jammu, specializing in paleontology, magnetostratigraphy, and biostratigraphy. He earned his Ph.D. from Panjab University Chandigarh, with a research focus on the mammalian systematics and ecomorphology of Miocene Ape localities in India. A former Postdoctoral Fellow at Baylor University and a two-time Franklin Mosher Baldwin Fellow, his current funded research investigates Middle Miocene hominoid evolution at Ramnagar

Employment

• Cluster University of Jammu Assitant Profeesor (Contractual)
  2025 - Present
• Baylor University Post doctrol Fellow
  2023 - 2025
• Panjab University Senior Research Fellow
  2018 - 2023

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (13)

• Additional mammalian record from the Miocene (Tortonian; ~10 Ma) locality of Tapar, Kutch Region, Gujarat State, western India: Biochronological and palaeoecological significance
  The Anatomical Record 2026 DOI: 10.1002/ar.70275
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• Geochronological insights of middle miocene primates and vertebrate fauna of Ramnagar (J&K, India): Integrating litho- and magnetostratigraphy
  PLOS One 2026 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0343500
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• A cane rat of African affinity from the Middle Miocene ape locality of Ramnagar (J&K), India
  The Anatomical Record 2025 DOI: 10.1002/ar.70071
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• First report of Cylindracanthus (Osteichthyes) from the Eocene of India
  PalaeoVertebrata 2024 DOI: 10.18563/pv.47.1.e2
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• The first report of cf. Zygolophodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Mammutidae) from the Upper Miocene of Kutch, India
  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2023 DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2023.2197959
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• New rodents shed light on the age and ecology of late Miocene ape locality of Tapar (Gujarat, India)
  Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2022 DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2022.2084701
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• First report on late Miocene (Tortonian: ~ 11–10 Ma) charophyte gyrogonites from Tapar, Kachchh District, Gujarat State, western India
  Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s43538-022-00102-4
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• A new window to the fossil herpetofauna of India: amphibians and snakes from the Miocene localities of Kutch (Gujarat)
  Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s12549-021-00515-x
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• Listriodon dukkar sp. nov. (Suidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Pasuda (Gujarat, India): the decline and extinction of the Listriodontinae
  PalZ 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s12542-022-00606-w
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• Sharks and rays (chondrichthyes, elasmobranchii) from the miocene sediments of Kutch, Gujarat, India: paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographic implications
  Historical Biology 2022 DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2021.1893712
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