Kanishka Bose

@iitb.ac.in

Post Doctoral Fellow
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

EDUCATION

Ph. D. (Sc.) in Geology, August 2017- August 2023 (Provisional Ph. D. Degree
awarded on 21.08.2023) – awarded by the University of Calcutta (Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata).
Title of the Ph. D. Thesis: Systematics, Diversity, Palaeobiogeography, and
Palaeoecology of Miocene gastropods of Dwarka Basin, Gujarat, India.
Supervisor: Dr. Shiladri Shekhar Das, Geological Studies Unit, Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Paleontology, Geology, Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Scopus Publications

Scholar Citations

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Scopus Publications

A new species of Talantodiscus (Family Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840) from the Late Jurassic of the Kutch, Western India
Sandip Saha, Shiladri S. Das, Subhronil Mondal, and Kanishka Bose
Geological Society of India
ABSTRACT Talantodiscus is a rare genus within the pleurotomariid gastropods represented by only seven species from nine different Mesozoic localities of New Zealand and Europe, appearing from the late Middle Triassic (Late Ladinian) to the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) in the fossil record. In the present paper, we report a new species, i.e., Talantodiscus gujaratensis, from the topmost Tithonian bed of the Kutch Basin, western India. The new find extends the palaeobiogeographic range of the genus to the western India beside New Zealand and European localities. Also, the last appearance datum (LAD) of the genus is extended to the latest of the Jurassic (Tithonian).

Global palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns of the Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods (Family: Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840)
Kanishka Bose, Shiladri S. Das, and Subhronil Mondal
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Erratum: Miocene Stromboid Gastropods (Superfamily Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815) from the Dwarka Basin, Western India and their Paleobiogeographic Implications (JOURNAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA Vol.99, November 2023, pp.1491-1507, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-023-2501-z)
Kanishka Bose, Shiladri S. Das, and Sandip Saha
Geological Society of India

Miocene Stromboid Gastropods (Superfamily Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815) from the Dwarka Basin, Western India and their Paleobiogeographic Implications
Kanishka Bose, Shiladri S. Das, and Sandip Saha
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Morphological conservatism of the family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: Potential causes and consequences
Neha Sharma, Subhronil Mondal, Shiladri S. Das, Kanishka Bose, and Sandip Saha
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
AbstractTaxonomic status of several members of the family Naticidae is extremely vague because of its simple shell morphology. Conventional taxonomic classification schemes suggest that most of the morphological characters tend to be homoplastic and exhibit convergence. Such morphological convergence complicates naticid taxonomy and makes it difficult to understand the evolutionary history of this group; several unrelated taxa are often misidentified as naticids, thereby exaggerating the actual diversity of this group. Here, we employ a standard landmark-based approach to understand the pattern of morphological evolution of this family. Ordination methods such as principal components analysis and canonical variate analysis were used to create morphospaces, and disparity was quantified using variance and range. Our results reveal that when naticids are compared with their sister taxon, Ampullinidae, the two families show significant differences in their average shapes, despite their superficial resemblances. Among naticids, although the mean shapes of the individual subfamilies are different, overall, the family Naticidae has displayed extreme morphological conservatism from the Jurassic to the Holocene. Interestingly, this conservatism has been unaffected by taxonomic changes—neither the extinction of the subfamily Gyrodinae nor the appearance of the subfamily Sininae affected this morphological conservatism. Naticids have always shown strong ecological preference toward an infaunal mode of life and strict behavioral selectivity in handling and preying upon infaunal organisms, and this ecological and behavioral conservatism could have enabled them to diversify without undergoing a change in their basic Bauplan.

An updated generic classification of Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods, with new records from the Oligocene and early Miocene of India
Kanishka Bose, Shiladri S. Das, and Subhronil Mondal
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
AbstractAlthough taxonomically distinct, the Cenozoic pleurotomariids are the bottlenecked remnants of the Mesozoic members of the family in terms of morphology, with only conical forms surviving the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Here, we propose an updated classification scheme for the Cenozoic representatives of this group, based on data from the entire Cenozoic pleurotomariid fossil record. We consider all conventional as well as several new characters so that this scheme can readily help to distinguish Cenozoic pleurotomariid genera. Following the new classification scheme, a revision of the generic status of Cenozoic species previously assigned to ‘Pleurotomaria’ Defrance, 1826 is presented.Only a few Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods have been reported from the Indian subcontinent. Here we report four species from the Oligocene of the Kutch Basin and the early Miocene (Burdigalian) of the Dwarka Basin of Gujarat, western India, of which two are described as new: Perotrochus bermotiensis n. sp., Entemnotrochus kathiawarensis n. sp., Entemnotrochus cf. E. bianconii, and Entemnotrochus? sp. 1.UUID: http://zoobank.org/89b6ff67-2834-477f-862b-67691104aca4

Substrate-controlled naticid gastropod drilling predation on recent barnacles from Chandipur, India and its Palaeontological implications
Subhronil Mondal, Akash Maitra, Kanishka Bose, Pritha Goswami, Subhendu Bardhan, and Sumanta Mallick
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT The study of drilling predation has been largely limited to molluscs. Herein, we report drilling predation on Recent acorn barnacles by gastropods from Chandipur, eastern India. The aspects of predator-prey relation dealt here are the size and site preference of the predator; the interrelationship between barnacle shell morphology (e.g., shape, external ornamentation) and drilling intensity; and influence of substrate type on body size and shape of barnacles, as well as predation pressure on it. The study reveals that, barnacles are drilled by the naticid gastropods, which is otherwise an uncommon interaction. Drilling intensity on the barnacles attached to a semi-infaunal bivalve, Timoclea imbricata, is exceptionally high and is comparable to the drilling intensity on the host bivalve. Otherwise, predation pressure is very low on barnacles, supporting previous literature. The study implies that unique live-live associations can create opportunities such that even an unusual predator (e.g., Naticidae) can successfully feed on a novel prey (e.g., barnacles), suggesting dietary opportunism. Studies dealing with the fossil record of drillholes should consider these different ecological (e.g., prey selectivity by the predator, host selection by the epizoan, role of unusual predator on an uncommon prey) aspects of drilling predation on barnacles through space and time.

Observation on the life habits of windowpane oyster Placuna placenta from Gujarat

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

A new species of Talantodiscus (Family Pleurotomariidae ) from the Late Jurassic of the Kutch, Western India
S Saha, S S. Das, S Mondal, K Bose
Journal Of The Geological Society Of India 100 (12), 1765-1772 2024

Global palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns of the Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods (Family: Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840)
K Bose, SS Das, S Mondal
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104 (1), 115-130 2024

Erratum: Miocene Stromboid Gastropods (Superfamily Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815) from the Dwarka Basin, Western India and their Paleobiogeographic Implications
K Bose, SS Das, S Saha
Journal of the Geological Society of India 100 (2), 303-303 2024

Miocene stromboid gastropods (superfamily Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815) from the Dwarka Basin, Western India and their Paleobiogeographic implications
K Bose, SS Das, S Saha
Journal of the Geological Society of India 99 (11), 1491-1507 2023

Morphological conservatism of the family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: potential causes and consequences
N Sharma, S Mondal, SS Das, K Bose, S Saha
Paleobiology 47 (3), 487-502 2021

Substrate-controlled naticid gastropod drilling predation on recent barnacles from Chandipur, India and its Palaeontological implications
S Mondal, A Maitra, K Bose, P Goswami, S Bardhan, S Mallick
Historical Biology 33 (7), 1029-1042 2021

An updated generic classification of Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods, with new records from the Oligocene and early Miocene of India
K Bose, SS Das, S Mondal
Journal of Paleontology 95 (4), 763-776 2021

Two giant gastropods from the Miocene of Dwarka Basin, Gujarat, India and their paleobiogeographic implications.
S Bose, K., Das, S. S., Saha
BSIP NECLIME Conference on Neogene climate evolution and biotic response(s 2021

The role of western Indian pleurotomariid gastropods in changing migration patterns of the family during the Cenozoic.
S Bose, K., Das, S. S., Mondal
2nd CPEG meeting- Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap, Berlin, 2021, 16 2021

Taxonomic and Ecological Diversity of Miocene Gastropods of the Dwarka Basin, Western India.
SS Bose, K., Das
5th International Meeting of Early-stage Researchers in Palaeontology 2021

Observation on the life habits of windowpane oyster from Gujarat
S Mondal, K Bose, SS Das
Indian Journal of Geosciences 74 (2), 183-186 2020

Status of Gastropod diversity pattern of three basins of Indian subcontinent during Miocene reviewed.
P Das, S. S., Bose, K., Goswami
Deep Time Biodiversity of Bengal, An Outreach Programme, Indian Statistical 2020

Discrimination of the Holocene subfamilies of the Family Naticidae: A geometric morphometrics approach.
S Sharma, N., Mondal, S., Das, S. S., Bose, K., Saha
3rd National Geo-Research Scholars Meet, WIHG, Dehradun, India., 19-20 2019

Geometrical analysis of Shell Coiling in Gastropoda: A Reappraisal of Theoretical and Empirical Approaches through time.
K Bose
Geo-Symposium Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India., 7 2018

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Morphological conservatism of the family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: potential causes and consequences
N Sharma, S Mondal, SS Das, K Bose, S Saha
Paleobiology 47 (3), 487-502 2021
Citations: 4

Observation on the life habits of windowpane oyster from Gujarat
S Mondal, K Bose, SS Das
Indian Journal of Geosciences 74 (2), 183-186 2020
Citations: 2