S K Pandey

About

My research work investigates the emergence of macroscopic multicellular complex eukaryotic life of the Cryogenian, Ediacaran and Cambrian Period. Studies incorporate to understand the affinity, phylogeny, ichnology, taphonomic bias and sedimentary depositional environment of enigmatic life forms representing the very first metazoans and metaphytes, encompasses earliest complex biosphere. Presently, I am engaged with unique Ediacaran-Cambrian succession of peninsular India i.e. the Marwar Supergroup and promising Croyogenian-Ediacaran succession of Bhander Group, Vindhyan Supergroup, India along with classical Ediacaran Lantian biota of South China.

Employment

• Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany Scientist
  2013 - Present

Education

• Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany Post-Doc
  2011 - 2013
• University of Lucknow Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
  2007 - 2011
• University of Lucknow Masters in Geology (M.Sc.)
  2002 - 2004

Projects & Funding

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Publications (39)

• Occurrence of Shaanxilithes ningqiangensis and their taphonomic variants from Krol E of the Nigalidhar Syncline, Lesser Himalaya, India
  Evolving Earth 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.eve.2026.100151
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• A prognostic ichnofabric framework for the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: Marwar Supergroup, India
  Evolving Earth 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.eve.2026.100152
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• Gyrophyllites cristinae: Unveiling early Cambrian life signatures in the Nagaur Sandstone, Marwar Supergroup, India
  Evolving Earth 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.eve.2025.100083
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• High primary productivity in an Ediacaran shallow marine basin influenced by strong seasonal to perennial upwelling
  Geological Magazine 2023 DOI: 10.1017/S0016756823000614
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• Dickinsonia tenuis reported by Retallack et al. 2021 is not a Fossil, Instead an Impression of an Extant ‘fallen beehive’ by S.K. Pandey, Shamim Ahmad and Mukund Sharma. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v.99, 2023, pp.311–316
  Journal of the Geological Society of India 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s12594-023-2427-5
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• A new palaeobiological assemblage from the Son Valley Bhander Group and its implications on the age of the upper Vindhyans of India
  Palaeoworld 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2023.06.001
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• Dickinsonia tenuis reported by Retallack et al. 2021 is not a fossil, instead an impression of an extant ‘fallen beehive’
  Journal of the Geological Society of India 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s12594-023-2312-2
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• For Preprint
  2023 DOI: 10.22541/essoar.167397423.32091965/v1
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• Precambrian and early Cambrian palaeobiology of India: Quo Vadis
  Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s43538-021-00029-2
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• Reply to “Towards resolving the ‘jigsaw puzzle’ and age-fossil inconsistency within east Gondwana: A comment by Bickford & Basu (2020).”
  Precambrian Research 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105900
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