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Subhronil Mondal

Assistant Professor
Dept: Earth Sciences (DES)
E-mail: subhronil.m [at] iiserkol.ac.in

All Publications:

  1. D, Mukherjee; Subhronil, Mondal; A, Roy; B, Iangrai and S, Sinha. 2022."Palaeobiogeographic analysis of late Permian invertebrates from the Arunachal Himalaya, NE India." Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 81, 147
  2. Mondal, Subhronil; Shreyasi, Hazra and N, Chakraborty. 2022."Absence of belemnites in the post-Cenomanian marine successions of Cauvery Basin, India: Role of sea level, paleogeography, and belemnite paleoecology." Journal of the Geological Society of India, ?, ?
  3. Mondal, Subhronil; K, Mondal S; Subhronil, Mondal; S, Hansda and K, Patra U. 2022."Deciphering grain size populations and hydromorphological characteristics of the coastal zone of the East Coast of India: Implications to coastal resilience and coastal hazard mitigation." Environmental Earth Sciences, ?, ?
  4. Mondal, Subhronil; Hindolita, Chakraborty; Sandip, Saha; Sahana, Dey and D, Sarkar. 2021."High biogeographic and latitudinal variability in gastropod drilling predation on molluscs along the eastern Indian coast: implications on the history of fossil record of drillholes." PLoS ONE, ?, ?
  5. Neha, Sharma; Mondal, Subhronil; S, Das S; K, Bose and S, Saha. 2021."Morphological conservatism of the Family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: potential causes and consequences." Paleobiology, 47, 487-502
  6. Mondal, Subhronil and U, Sarkar. 2021."Predatory drilling traces on Recent foraminifea from Chandipur coast, India." Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 51, 286-293
  7. R, Saha; S, Paul; Subhronil, Mondal; S, Bardhan; S, Das S; S, Saha and D, Sarkar. 2021."Gastropod drilling predation in the Upper Jurassic of Kutch, India." PALAIOS, 36, 301-312
  8. K, Bose; S, Das S and Subhronil, Mondal. 2021."An updated generic classification of Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods, with new records from the Oligocene and early Miocene of India ." Journal of Paleontology, 95, 763-776
  9. S, Sinha; Y, Ray; K, Ghosh S and Subhronil, Mondal. 2021."Sediment Grain size characterization from Upper Reaches of Ganga River System, Garhwal Himalaya: a statistical approach." Himalayan Geology, 42, 321=328
  10. Mondal, Subhronil; R, Ghosh; K, Chatterjee and Hindolita, Chakraborty. 2021."Large-scale spatial biostratinomic patterns along the eastern Indian coasts: identification of a generalized siliciclastic beach taphofacies applicable in analogues (paleo)environments. ." Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 249, ?
  11. Mondal, Subhronil; D, Mukherjee; B, Iangrai; A, Roy and S, Sinha. 2021."Early Permian macroinvertebrate assemblages from the Siang and Subansiri districts, Arunachal Pradesh: implications on the regional stratigraphy, palaeoenvironment, palaeoecology, and palaeogeography ." Journal of Earth System Science, 130, ?
  12. S, Sinha; K, Mondal S; Subhronil, Mondal and K, Patra U. 2021."Sediment characterization and dispersal analysis along a part of the meso- to micro-tidal coast: A case study from East Coast of India." Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 14, 1-14
  13. D, Sarkar; G, Deole; S, Paul; Subhronil, Mondal and R, Saha. 2021." Pre-burial taphonomic imprints on drilling intensity: A case study from the Recent mollusks of Chandipur, India.." Historical Biology, 33, 1457-1463
  14. Mondal, Subhronil; Kanishka, Bose and Shiladri, Das S. 2020."Observation of life habit of the windowpane oyster Placuna placenta from Gujarat.." Indian Journal of Geosciences., 74, 183-186
  15. Gupta, Neha; Mondal, Subhronil; Chakraborty, Hindolita and Chaudhury, Punarbasu. 2020."Nature of spatial heterogeneity of the coastal, marine ecoregions along the eastern coast of India." Journal of Earth System Science, 129, 1-12
  16. Mondal, Subhronil; Maitra, Akash; Bose, Kanishka; Goswami, Pritha; Bardhan, Subhendu and Mallick, Sumanta. 2020."Substrate-controlled Naticid Gastropod Drilling Predation on Recent Barnacles from Chandipur, India and its Paleontological Implications." Historical Biology, 33, 1029-1042
  17. D’Rozario, A; Sen, I; Parua, D; Guha, A; Verma, V; Paul, S; Gangopadhyay, T; Roy, Arindam; Mondal, Subhronil and Bera, S. 2020."Auxin flow- mediated anatomical modifications in the Indian Meso–Cenozoic plants." Botany Letters, 167, 212-218
  18. Mondal, Subhronil; Chakraborty, Hindolita and Paul, Shubhabrata. 2019."Latitudinal pattern of gastropod drilling predation through time." Palaios, 34, 261-270
  19. Das, Shiladri S; Mondal, Subhronil; Saha, Sandip; Bardhan, Subhendu and Saha, Ranita. 2019."Family Naticidae (Gastropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Kutch, India and a critical reappraisal of taxonomy and time of origination of the family." Journal of Paleontology, 94, 673-684
  20. Paul, Jyotirmoy; Mondal, Subhronil; Kayal, Rishikesh and Sarkar, Deepjay. 2019."Burrow morphology of the ocypodid crab Ocypode ceratophthalma at Chandipur coast, Eastern India and its implications." Current Science, 117, 699-705
  21. Mondal, Subhronil. 2017."A Short Review of Phanerozoic Taxonomic and Ecologic Diversity of Bivalves." Indian Journal of Geology, 86-87, 19-34
  22. Dutta, Rakhi; Bardhan, Subhendu; Paul, Shubhabrata and Mondal, Subhronil. 2017."The taxonomic status of the genus Hubertoceras Spath: a new light on sexual dimorphism from the Callovian ammonites of Kutch, India." Palaeontologia Electronica, 20.2.37A, 1-23
  23. Mondal, Subhronil; Chakraborty, Hindolita and Paul, Shubhabrata. 2017."Naticid confamilial drilling predation through time." Palaios, 32, 278-287
  24. Sarkar, Debattam; Bardhan, Subhendu; Mondal, Subhronil; Das, Anirban; Pahari, Arijit and Buragohain, Dipankar. 2016."Predation on Recent terebrid gastropods from the Indian Subcontinent and a spatiotemporal reappraisal based on revised global database." Malacologia, 59, 271-302
  25. Mondal, Subhronil and Harries, Peter J. 2016."Phanerozoic trends in ecospace utilization: the bivalve perspective." Earth Science Reviews, 52, 106-118
  26. Pahari, Arijit; Mondal, Subhronil; Bardhan, Subhendu; Sarkar, Debattam; Saha, Sandip and Buragohain, Dipankar. 2016."Subaerial Drilling Predation by Natica tigrina on the Intertidal Molluscan Community of Chandipur, Eastern Coast of India." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 451, 110-123
  27. Mondal, Subhronil and Harries, Peter J. 2015."Temporal Patterns in Successful and Unsuccessful Shell-Breaking Predatory Attack Strategies on Varicorbula in the Plio-Pleistocene of Florida." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 428, 31-38
  28. Mondal, Subhronil and Harries, Peter J. 2015."The Effect of Taxonomic Corrections on Phanerozoic Generic Richness Trends in Marine Bivalves with a Discussion on the Clade’s Overall History." Paleobiology, 42, 157-171
  29. Mondal, Subhronil; Hutchings, Jack and Herbert, Gregory S. 2014."A note on edge drilling predation by naticid gastropods." A Note on Edge Drilling Predation by Naticid Gastropods. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 80, 206-212
  30. Mondal, Subhronil; Harries, Peter J; Paul, Shubhabrata and Herbert, Gregory S. 2014."Paleoecological significance of coupling metrics of successful and unsuccessful shell-breaking predation: Examples using Neogene bivalve prey." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 399, 89-99
  31. Mondal, Subhronil; Bardhan, Subhendu; Mallick, Sumanta and Roy, Arindam. 2014."Repair scars on Mactra violacea from the eastern coast of India: a new classification and a model for describing shell breakage on bivalves." Palaeontologia Electronica, 17.3.46A, 1-13
  32. Das, Anirban; Mondal, Subhronil and Bardhan, Subhendu. 2014."A note on exceptionally high confamilial naticid drilling frequency on Natica gualteriana from the Indian subcontinent." Historical Biology, 26, 758-764
  33. Paul, Gopal; Das, Anirban; Bardhan, Subhendu and Mondal, Subhronil. 2013."Predation on Recent turritelline gastropods from Indian subcontinent and comparison with revised global database." Malacologia, 56, 193-213
  34. Bardhan, Subhendu; Devapriya, Chattopadhyay; Mondal, Subhronil; Das, Shiladri S; Mallick, Sumanta; Roy, Arindam and Chanda, Piyali. 2012."Record of intense predatory drilling from Upper Jurassic bivalves of Kutch, India: Implications for the history of biotic interaction." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 317-318, 153–161
  35. Roy, Arindam; Bardhan, Subhendu; Das, Shiladri S; Mondal, Subhronil and Mallick, Sumanta. 2012."Systematic revision and palaeobiogeography of Perisphinctes Waagen (Ammonoidea) from the Oxfordian of Kutch, India: Stratigraphic and evolutionary implications." Palaeoworld, 21, 167–192
  36. Bardhan, Subhendu; Ghosh, Tuhin; Mondal, Subhronil; Roy, Arindam and Mallick, Sumanta. 2011."The Holocene Sea level Changes as Evidenced from Palaeontological Proxy Data: a Case Study from Glauconome sculpta (Bivalvia) along the eastern Coast of India." Palaeoworld, 20, 92-97
  37. Mondal, Subhronil; Bardhan, Subhendu and Sarkar, Deepjay. 2010."Testability of Energy Maximization Model (Kitchell et al., 1981) of naticid predation on two bivalve prey from eastern coast of India." The Nautilus, 124, 1-14
  38. Mondal, Subhronil; Das, Sebabrata; Sumanta, Mallick and Debapriya, Adhikary. 2009."Miocene shark teeth assemblages and ancillary fish taxa from Baripada, Orissa: Taxonomic revision and a global Palaeobiogeographic overview." Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India., 54, 135-152.


  1. Mondal, Subhronil; S, Das S and Subhronil, Mondal. 2021." Gastropod biozonation for the Jurassic sediments of Kutch and Jaisalmer Basins and its application in interbasinal correlation", "Mesozoic Stratigraphy of India - A Multi-proxy Approach". Springer, ISBN: 9783030713706
  2. Mondal, Subhronil. 2014." Predatory Drilling Snails", "Tate Geological Conference, Casper, Wyoming. ". Casper, Wyoming. ,