Invited Talks
1. Ancient Environments: Examples from the Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Geological Survey of India on the eve of 175 years of GSI and 75 years of PSI celebration. May 2025
2. Diversification Pattern of Phanerozoic Marine Invertebrates. Durgapur Government College. June 2024
3. Diversification Pattern of Phanerozoic Marine Invertebrates. Geological Institute, Presidency University. March 2024
4. Delivered an invited lecture to the school students on the eve of the World Environment Day 2023 at ICFRE - IWST, Field Station, Kolkata. 2023.
5. Phanerozoic Taxonomic and Ecological Diversification History: A Case Study from Bivalves. TDB College, Raniganj, India. March, 2015.
6. Phanerozoic Diversification History of Bivalves. 20th Abaninanth Chaudhuri Memorial lecture, University of Calcutta. September, 2015.
Conference Abstracts-Presentation
*MSc student author; **PhD student author; ***Postdocs; ^Summer students
45. Mukherjee, D., Iangrai, B., Roy, A., Verma, S., Mondal, S. 2025. Permian brachiopod diversity from Arunachal Pradesh and its palaeobiogeographic implication. Fossils as Earth’s Timekeepers. NIO Goa.
44. Mondal, S., Mishra, S., Maitra, A., Sharma, N., Saha, S., Banerjee, S. 2025. Idiographic and nomothetic: the role of novel Indian Meso-Cenozoic marine invertebrate data. Fossils as Earth’s Timekeepers. NIO Goa.
43. S. Saha.**, Mondal, S., Das, S.S. 2025. Paleobiogeographic evidences suggest that the Middle to Late Jurassic gastropod assemblages of western India were faunistically distinct. Fossils as Earth’s Timekeepers. NIO Goa.
42. Mishra, S.**, Mondal, S. 2025. Meso-Cenozoic Disparity dynamics of the Class Echinoidea from India. Fossils as Earth’s Timekeepers. NIO Goa.
41. Banerjee, S.***, Mondal, S. 2025. The Amravati Formation, overlying the Cambay Shale, in the Cambay Basin, western India: lithological and paleontological accounts. Fossils as Earth’s Timekeepers. NIO Goa.
40. Maitra, A.**, Mondal, S. 2025. A Late Pleistocene coral reef from western India as a proxy for reconstructing local-scale paleoenvironment and sea-level fluctuations. Fossils as Earth’s Timekeepers. NIO Goa.
39. Sharma, N.**, Mondal, S. 2025. Phanerozoic morphological evolution in Class Bivalvia: Insights into patterns and processes from model-based approaches. Fossils as Earth’s Timekeepers. NIO Goa.
38. Mondal, S., Ghosh, A.*, Mallick, D.^ 2024. Spatio-latitudinal patterns of visible shell colours on molluscs along the Indian eastern coast. The 95th Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (PalGes), Warsaw.
37. Mondal, S., Paul, S., Ghosh, A.*, Sarkar, D. 2023. The effect of sampling protocol on spatial patterns in marine bivalve diversity along the eastern Indian coast. BIVALVES – WHERE ARE WE GOING? Cambridge.
36. S. Saha.**, Bose, K., Das, S.S., Mondal, S. 2022. How environmental changes governed the predation scenario in Indian turritelline-dominated assemblages through time? International Paleontological Congress 2022.
35. Bose, K., Das, S.S., Mondal, S. 2022. A highly diverse, turritelline-dominated micro-molluscan assemblage from the early Miocene (Burdigalian) of the Dwarka Basin, western India. World Congress of Malacology 2022.
34. S. Saha.**, Mondal, S., Das, S.S. 2022. Ecological and Environmental attributes of shell morphologies of the western Indian Jurassic gastropods. World Congress of Malacology 2022.
33. Maitra, A.**, Mondal, S. 2022. Are barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia) always a less-preferred prey of gastropod drilling predators? International Geological Congress (IGC) 2020. p. 714.
32. Sharma, N.**, Mondal, S., Das, S. S. 2022. Is the subfamily Schizobasinae a prospective ancestor of the family Naticidae? International Geological Congress (IGC) 2020. p. 716.
31. S. Saha.**, Das, S.S., Mondal, S. 2022. First record of the pleurotomariid (Gastropoda) genus Talantodiscus from the latest Jurassic (Tithonian) bed of Kutch, western India. International Geological Congress (IGC) 2020. p. 717.
30. S. Saha.**, Das, S.S., Mondal, S., Mukherjee, D. 2021. Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) marine gastropods from the Jaisalmer Basin, Western India. 3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress.
29. Sharma, N.**, Mondal, S. 2021. Sustained morphospace occupancy of naticid gastropods across the K-Pg Mass Exticntion. GSA 2021 Connects Online.
28. Bose, K., Das, S.S., Mondal, S. 2021. The role of western Indian pleurotomariid gastropods in changing migration patterns of the family during the Cenozoic. 2nd Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap. Berlin.
27. Sharma, N.*; Mondal, S. 2020. Analyzing morphological differences between reef- and soft substrate-hosted recent marine bivalves from India: a morphospace perspective. GSA 2020 Connects Online. [link]
26. Saha, R., Paul, S., Mondal, S.; Das, S.S.; Saha, S.**, Sarkar, D. 2020. Gastropod drilling predation in the Upper Jurassic of Kutch, India. GSA 2020 Connects Online. [link]
25. Sharma, N.**, Mondal, S., Das, S. S., Bose, K., Saha, S.** 2019. Discrimination of the Holocene subfamilies of the Family Naticidae: A geometric morphometrics approach. National Geo-Research Scholars Meet-2019 at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun. [link]
24. Ganguly, S.^, Giri, A.^, Mondal, S. 2019. Coral reef-associated molluscan diversity in India. Modern Trends in Earth Sciences, Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. [pdf/link]
23. Sarkar, U., Mondal, S., Kayal, R., Sarkar, D., Biswas, R., Mohanty, S. 2018. Comparison of foraminiferal abundance and diversity at different sub-environment of Chandipur Coast, Odisha, India. National Seminar on Frontiers in Earth Science Researches, Utkal University. [for pdf email me]
22. Saha, S.**, Sinha, S.*, Dey, S.*, Chakraborty, H.**, Mondal, S., Das, S.S. 2017. Spatio-environmental variation in modern marine gastropod shell forms along the coastal regions of Odisha, India. National Geo-Research Scholars Meet-2017 at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun. [pdf]
21. Chakraborty, H.**, Mondal, S., Sarkar, D., Goswami, P., Saha, R., Sandip, S.**, Pahari, A. 2017. Spatio-nnvironmental variation in gastropod drilling predation on bivalve Timoclea imbricata along the eastern coast of Orissa, India. National Geo-Research Scholars Meet-2017 at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun. [for pdf email me]
20. Sen, I., Paruya, D.K., Paul, S., Gangopadhyay, T.K., Verma, V., Roy, A., Mondal, S., Bera, S., 2016. Evidence of polar auxin whirlpool in the Meso-Cenozoic petrified woods from different parts of India. Kolkata. [for pdf email me]
19. Saha, S., Mondal, S., Bardhan, S., Mallick, S., Pahari, A., Sarkar, D., Buragohain, D., Das, A., Goswami, P., Dutta, R., 2016. Predator-Prey Interaction on the Molluscan Assemblage from Chandipur-on- Sea, Odisha. National Geo-Research Scholars Meet-2016 at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun. [pdf]
18. Sarkar, D., Paul, S., Mondal, S., Bardhan, S., 2016. Effect of taphonomic overprinting on drilling predation in molluscs. National Geo-Research Scholars Meet-2016 at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun. [pdf]
19. Mondal, S.,Sarkar, D., Goswami, P., 2015. Indian record of drilling predation by the predatory gastropods and its global significance. XXV Indian Colloquium on Micropaleontology & Stratigraphy. pages: 72-74. [pdf]
17. Harries, P.J., Cardenas, A.L.C., Mondal, S., 2015. Should the long-term biotic responses to environmental changes be linear/exponential? : perspectives from planktic foraminifera and marine bivalves. Geological Society of America Abstract with program, 47(7). [link].
16. Brown, G.M., Mondal, S., Harries, P.J. and Slattery, J.S. 2014. Drilling predation patterns from the Miocene Chipola formation of Florida: taphonomic versus environmental overprinting. Geological Society of America Abstract with program, 46(6). [link].
15. Whorley, T.L., Mondal, S., Harries, P.J. and Slattery, J.S. 2014. Impact of environmental variability on drilling predation: a comparison among Turritella-dominated assemblages. Geological Society of America Abstract with program, 46(6). [link]
14. Slattery, J.S., Mondal, S. and Harries, P.J. 2014. The Role of very-abundant taxa in overprinting ecological signals and diversity patterns in Fossil Assemblages. NAPC, Florida. [link/pdf]
13. Sarkar, D., Saha, S., Buragohain, D., Pahari, A., Das, A. and Mondal, S. 2013. Molluscan Diversity in Chandipur, Odisha. National Workshop on Modern Geological and Geophysical Methods and their Applications, Kolkata, India. GEOL 27:41. [pdf]
12. Mondal, S. and Harries, P. 2013. Prey selectivity by the predatory drilling gastropods: a Meso-Cenozoic perspective. Geological Society of America Abstract with program, 45(7). [link]
11. Paul, J. and Mondal, S. 2013. Ecological Significance of Ocypode crab burrows: a case study from Chandipur, Eastern Coast of India. National Conference on Earth Sciences in India: Challenges and Emerging trends, Roorkee. [link/pdf]
10. Mondal, S., Herbert, G., 2012. Effect of extinction on durophagy: a case study from the Neogene of Florida. Geological Society of America Abstract with program, 44(7). [link]
9. Mondal, S., Herbert, G., 2012. Is edge drilling a pervasive facultative response to enemies? Geological Society of America Abstract with program, 44(7). [link]
8. Paul, G. Das, A., Bardhan, S., Mondal, S. 2012. Predation on Recent turritelline gastropods from Indian subcontinent and comparison with revised global database. Abstract. 119-120. National Conference on Sustainable Development through Innovative Research in Science and Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. [link/pdf]
7. Mondal, S., Hutchings, J., Herbert, G. S. 2012. Obligatory edge drilling by the naticid gastropod Polinices lacteus from Florida. Florida United Malacologists (FUM) Conference, Sanibel Island, Florida, 10. [link]
6. Bardhan, S., Das, S.S., Mallick, S., Mondal, S., Dutta, R. 2012. The record of oldest naticid (gastropod from the Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) of Kutch, India: palaeoecological implicatios. Geological Society of America Abstract with program, 44(7). [link]
5. Bardhan, S., Mallick, S., Das, S.S., Mondal, S., Dutta, R. 2012. Oldest naticid (Gastropoda) predation from the Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) of Kutch, Gujarat and its Palaeoecological significance. Abstract. poster# 97. National Conference on Sustainable Development through Innovative Research in Science and Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. [link/pdf]
4. Das, A., Paul, G. Mondal, S. Bardhan, S., Mallick. S. 2012. Subaerial hunting by Natica tigrina in the intertidal flat of Chandipur, Orissa. Young Ecologists Talk and Interact, Doon University, India. Speed-Talk-cum-Poster. [link/pdf]
3. Das, S. S., Mallick, S., Mondal, S. 2012. Record of naticid like gastropod genera from Jurassic of Kutch: implications for paleoecological significance. National Level Field based Workshop on Geology of Kachchh basin, western India: Present status and future perspectives. Abstract. Kachchh University, Gujarat, India, 28-29. [link/pdf]
2. Mondal, S., Herbert, G., Bardhan, S. 2010. Analyzing repairability of shell breakage in bivalves. Geological Society of America Abstract with program, 42(5). [link]
1. Mondal, S., Adhakary, D., Das, S., Mallick, S. 2007. Coastal Zone Development During The Miocene: A Case Study From Shark Teeth Bearing Horizon In Baripada, Orissa. West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST), CGCRI, Kolkata, India. [link/pdf]