Dr. Ningthoujam Premjit Singh

Germany: Visiting scientist through DST-DAAD Project in the University of Duisberg Essen (Germany), Inorganic Chemistry from 20th November 2017 to 1st December 2017.

Attended and presented at the 29th Indian Colloquium on Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy held at Delhi University from 17th to 19th October, 2024.

Organized (as a committee member) 7th National Geo-Research Scholars Meet 2023 held at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology from 12 September-13th September 2023.

Participated in Exhibition conducted from 21st to 24th January 2023 as a part of 8th International Science Festival 2022 organized by Ministry of Science & Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India and Government of Madhya Pradesh held at MANIT, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Participated at the 5th National Geo-Research Scholar Meet, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun from July 22 to July 23, 2021.

Attended and presented at the 3rd National Geo-Research Scholar Meet, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun from June 6, 2019 to June 8, 2019.

Attended and presented at the 13th Chandigarh Science Congress organized by Panjab University, Chandigarh in collaboration with Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster from March 13, 2019 to March 15, 2019.

Participated in the Workshop-cum-Seminar on the Energy Scenario in a Consumer Driven India held in the Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh on November 14, 2018.

Attended and presented at the International Conference on Emergence and Evolution of the Indian Foreland Basin, CAS in Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh from November 18, 2016 to November 19, 2016.

Participated at the National Workshop on UV-vis, FTIR, XRD, FE-SEM and TEM Techniques under Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP-II) in association with Department of SIAF/CIL/USIC, Panjab University, Chandigarh from April 25, 2016 to April 30, 2016.

Attended and presented at the 1st National Geo-Research Scholars Meet, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun from June 1, 2016 to June 4, 2016.

“Human evolution” (19/09/2023): An invited talk in the Hindi Pakhwada at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun.

Singh, N.P., Lin, C.-H., Sehgal, R.K., Singh, A.P., Devi, K.N., Angmo, R., Nazir, H., Patnaik, R., and Sharma, K.M. 2025. Pliocene otoliths from NW India reveal first fossil osphronemid and structure of a Himalayan freshwater ecosystem. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment (Accepted).

Singh, N.P.*, Sehgal, R.K., Singh, A.P., Patnaik, R., Gilbert, C.C., Patel, B.A., Devi, K.N., Angmo, R., and Nazir, H. 2025. A new species of bush rat from the Early Pliocene UpperSiwaliks of Mohand (Uttar Pradesh, India) with implications for a South Asian origin of the genus Golunda. The Anatomical Record, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70066

Lin, C.-H.*, Lin, S.-M., Chien, C.-W, Lin, T.-E., Nazir, H., and Singh, N.P.* 2025. First fossil frog and snake assemblage from southern Taiwan: a window into Pleistocene herpetofauna and palaeoenvironments in subtropical East Asia. Fossil Record, 28(2), 293-308. https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.164568

Singh, N.A., Sharma, K.M., Oatnail, R., Tiwari, R.P., Kathal, P.K., Singh, N.P., Singh, Y.P., and Choudhary, D. 2025. Additional late Miocene sharks and batoids (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Baripada Beds, Odisha, India: Implications for palaeoenvironment and palaeobiogeography. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 1-24.

Singh. N. P.*, Singh, A. P., Sehgal, R. K., and Sharma, K. M. 2025. Incisor Enamel Microstructure of the Late Miocene Siwalik Rodents from Dunera, Punjab State, North India: Functional and Ecological Implications. Geological Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.5250

Wazir, W. A., Patnaik, R., Sehgal, R. K., Kumar, N., Kumar, R., Singh, N. P., Wazir, M. A., and Choudhary, D. 2025. 3D model related to the publication: A find from the Ladakh Himalaya reveals a survival of madtsoiid snakes (Serpentes, Madtsoiidae) in India through the Late Oligocene. Morpho Musuem. https://doi.org/10.18563/journal.m3.271

Gilbert, C.C., Ortiz, A., Pugh, K.D., Campisano. C.J., Patel, B.A., Singh, N.P., Fleagle, J.G., and Patnaik, R. 2025. Additional analyses of stem catarrhine and hominoid dental morphology support Kapi ramnagarensis as a stem hylobatid. Journal of Human Evolution, 103628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103628

Singh, Y. P., Kingson, O., Sharma, K. M., Tiwari, R. P., Patnaik, R., Ghosh, P., Sharma, A., Pattanaik, J. K., Kumar, P., Thomas, H., Singh, N. P., Kisku, P. C., and Singh, N. A. 2025. Geochemistry of the siliciclastic sediments from the Raniganj Gondwana basin, West Bengal, India, and its geological implications. Acta Geochim, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11631-025-00756-z

Singh, N.A., Singh, N.P., Sharma, K.M., Patnaik, R., Tiwari, R.P. 2024. Miocene cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from India: A review on global palaeobiogeography. Indian Journal of Geosciences, 78(3), 311-330.

Singh, A.P., Pandey, S., Sehgal, R.K., and Singh, N.P. 2024. Fluvial ichnofossil assemblage from the Miocene Siwalik succession of Pathankot District, Punjab, India: Palaeoenvironmental interpretation. Journal of Earth System Science, 133, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-023-02223-w

Sehgal, R.K., Singh, A.P., Singh, N.P.*, Gilbert, C.C., Patel, B.A. and Patnaik, R. 2023. First report of rodents from the Miocene Siwalik locality of Dunera, Pathankot District, Punjab, India. Palaeontologia Electronica, 26(3), a49. https://doi.org/10.26879/1308

Choudhary, D., Jukar, A.M., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.A., Singh, N.P., Sharma, K.M. 2023. The first report of cf. Zygolophodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Mammutidae) from the Upper Miocene of Kutch, India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42(4), e2197959. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2197959

Singh, A.P., Sehgal, R.K., Singh, N.P., Kharya, A. 2023. Diet and habitat of late Miocene herbivore mammals from Nurpur, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. Geological Journal, 58, 740-754. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4621

Singh, Y.P., Sharma, K.M., Tiwari, R.P., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.A., Singh, N.P. 2023. Lepidosauromorphs and associated vertebrate fauna from the Late Triassic Tiki Formation, South Rewa, Gondwana basin, India: implication for paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 89, 325-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43538-023-00162-0

Singh, Y.P., Kingson, O., Sharma, K.M., Ghosh, P., Patnaik, R., Tiwari, R.P., Pattnaik, J.K., Kumar, P., Singh, N.P., Singh, N.A. 2023. Evolution of the Permo-Triassic Satpura Gondwana Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India: Insights from geochemical provenance and paleoclimate of the siliciclastic sediments. Geological Journal, 23, 700-721. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4619

Singh, N.P.*, Deep, S., Čerňanský, A., Sehgal, R.K., Singh, A.P., Kumar, N., Uniyal, P., Kumar, S., Krishan, K., Patnaik, R. 2022. Fossil lizards and snakes (Diapsida, Squamata) from the late Miocene hominid locality of Haritalyangar, India. Geobios, 75, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2022.10.003

Singh, N.A., Choudhary, D., Singh, Y.P., Singh, N.P., Patnaik, R., Tiwari, R.P., Sharma, K.M. 2022. Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the middle Miocene deposits of Palasava, Kutch, India: implication for paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 21(43), 939-968. https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a43

Singh, N.A., Singh, N.P., K. Sharma, K.M., Patnaik, R., Tiwari, R.P., Sehgal, R.K., Kumar, V., Wazir, W.A., Singh, Y.P., Choudhari, D. 2022. 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, 88, 439-455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43538-022-00102-4

Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P., Sharma, K.M., Singh, N.A., Choudhary, D., Singh, Y.P., Kumar, R., Wazir, W.A., Sahni, A. 2022. New rodents shed light on the age and ecology of Late Miocene ape locality of Tapar (Gujarat, India). Journal of Systematic Paleontology, 20(1), 2084701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2022.2084701

Singla, A., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P., Sharma, K.M., Sahni, A. 2022. Incisor enamel microstructure of some Neogene muroid rodents of India: taxonomic, evolutionary and biomechanical implications. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 67(1), 93-112.

Singh, N.P.*, Patnaik, R., Čerňanský, A., Sharma, K.M., Singh, N.A., Choudhary, D., Sehgal. R.K. 2022. A new window to the fossil herpetofauna of India: amphibians and snakes from the Miocene localities of Kutch (Gujarat). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment, 102, 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-021-00515-x

Singh, A.P., Sehgal, R.K., Singh, N.P. 2022. First report of microfauna from Siwalik sediments of Nurpur, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. Journal of Earth System Science, 131, 147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-022-01880-7

Sehgal, R.K., Singh, A.P., Gilbert, C.C., Patel, B.A., Campisano, C.J., Selig, K.R., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P.* 2022. A new genus of treeshrew and other micromammals from the middle Miocene hominoid locality of Ramnagar, Udhampur District, Jammu & Kashmir State, India. Journal of Palaeontology, 96(6), 1318-1335. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2022.41

Wazir, W.A., Sehgal, R.K., Čerňanský, A., Patnaik, R., Kumar, N., Singh, A.P., Uniyal, P., Singh, N.P.* 2022. A find from the Ladakh Himalaya reveals a survival of madtsoiid snakes (Serpentes, Madtsoiidae) in India till the late Oligocene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.2058401

Čerňanský, A., Singh, N.P., Patnaik, R., Sharma, K.M., Tiwari, R.P., Sehgal, R.K., Singh, N.A., Choudhary, D. 2022. The Miocene fossil lizards from Kutch (Gujarat), India: a rare window to the past diversity of this subcontinent. Journal of Paleontology, 96(1), 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.85

Sharma, K.M., Singh, N.A., Patnaik, R., Tiwari, R.P., Singh, N.P., Singh, Y.P., Choudhary, D., Lalotra, S.K. 2022. Sharks and rays (chondrichthyes, elasmobranchii) from the miocene sediments of Kutch, Gujarat, India: paleoenvironmental andpaleobiogeographic implications. Historical Biology, 34(1), 10-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.1893712

Nanda, A.C., Sehgal, R.K., Singh, A.P., Singh, N.P. 2022. Mammalian fauna of the Siwalik Group of Indian Subcontinent: Biostratigraphic analysis. Himalayan Geology, 43(1A), 17-39.

van der Made, J., Choudhary, D., Singh, N.P., Sharma, K.M., Singh, N.A., Patnaik, R. 2022. Listriodon dukkar sp. nov. (Suidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Pasuda (Gujarat, India): the decline and extinctions of the Listriodontinae. PalZ, 96, 355-383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-022-00606-w

Mennecart, B., Wazir, W.A., Sehgal, R.K., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P., Kumar, N., Nanda, A.C. 2022. New remains of Nalamaeryx (Tragulidae, Mammalia) from the Ladakh Himalaya and their phylogenetical and palaeoenvironmental implications. 2022. Historical Biology, 34(12), 2295-2303. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.2014479

Singh, N.P., Singh, N.A., Sharma, K.M., Patnaik, R., Singh, Y.P., Chaudhary, D. 2021. A colubrid snake from the late Miocene of Kutch, Gujarat, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 66(2), 381-387.

Białas, N., Prymak, O., Singh, N.P., Paul, D., Patnaik, R., Epple, M. 2021. Teeth of past and present elephants: Microstructure and Composition of Enamel in Fossilized Proboscidean Molars and Implications for Diagenesis. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009557. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009557

Singh, N.A., Sharma, K.M., Singh, Y.P., Singh, N.P., Patnaik, R. 2020. Enameloid ultrastructure of some Chondrichthyan fishes (Hybodontiformes, Xenacanthiformes from the Late Triassic of Tiki Formation, Madhya Pradesh; Carcharhiniformes and Myliobatiformes from Miocene of Kutch and Late Miocene Baripada beds, Orissa, India): an interrelationship and developmental approach. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 65(2), 115-130.

Gilbert, C.C., Ortiz, A., Pugh, K.D., Campisano, C.J., Patel, B.A., Singh, N.P., Fleagle, J.G., Patnaik, R. 2020. New Middle Miocene Ape (Primate: Hylobatidae) from Ramnagar, India fills major gaps in the hominoid fossil record. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Science, 287, 20201655. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1655

Singh, N.P., Jukar, A.M., Patnaik, R., Sharma, K.M., Singh, N.A., Singh, Y.P. 2020. The first specimen of Deinotherium indicum (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Deinotheriidae) from the late Miocene of Kutch, India. Journal of Paleontology, 94(4), 788-795. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.3

Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P., Paul, D., Sukumar, R. 2019. Dietary and habitat shifts in relation to climate change of Neogene-Quaternary proboscideans and associated mammals of the Indian subcontinent. Quaternary Science Review, 224, 105968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105968

Gilbert, C.C., Sehgal, R.K., Pugh, K.D., Campisano, C.J., May, E., Patel, B.A., Singh, N.P., Patnaik, R. 2019. New Sivapithecus specimen from Ramnagar (Jammu & Kashmir), India and a taxonomic revision of Ramnagar hominoids. Journal of Human Evolution, 139, 102665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102665

Singh, N.P., Sharma, K.M., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.A., Singh Y.P. 2019. Teleostei fish remains from the Miocene of Kutch, Gujarat, India: palaeoenvironmental implications. Indian Journal of Geosciences, 73(2), 79-88.

Singh, N.A., Sharma, K.M., Gogoi, B.J., Singh, Y.P., Singh, N.P. 2019. Microstructures of shark teeth from Late Miocene deposits of Baripada Beds, Orissa, India. Earth Science India, 12 (I), 71-82.

Singh, N.P., Gilbert, C.C., Patel, B.A., Patnaik, R. 2018. The taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Middle Miocene hominoid locality of Ramnagar (Jammu and Kashmir, India). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 162, 69-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.02.020

Patnaik, R., Kotla, S.S., Singh, N.P., Singla, A., Kaur, J. 2018. A new murid rodent assemblage from Upper Siwaliks, Himachal Pradesh, India: Biostratigraphic and phylogenetic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 162, 93-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.05.030

Gilbert, C.C., Patel, B.A., Singh, N.P., Campisano, C.J., Fleagle, J.G., Rust, K.L., Patnaik, R. 2017. New sivaladapid primate from Lower Siwalik deposits surrounding Ramnagar, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Journal of Human Evolution, 102, 21-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.10.001

Sharma, K.M., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P. 2016. Clay mineralogy of Late Miocene Baripada Beds (Mayurbanj District, Orissa): Palaeoclimatic implication. International Journal of Applied Research, 2(7), 217-223.