Editing Vindhya Range (section)

== Geology and palaeontology ==
The "Vindhyan Supergroup" is one of the largest and thickest [[sedimentary rock|sedimentary]] [[succession (geology)|successions]] in the world.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Age of the Vindhyan Supergroup: A review of recent findings |journal=Journal of Earth System Science |date=February 2006  |volume=115 |issue=1 |pages=149–160 |author=Jyotiranjan S Ray |doi=10.1007/BF02703031 |s2cid=129093679 |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/jessci/feb06/vin-10.pdf |doi-access=free }}</ref>

The earliest known [[multicellular]] [[fossil]]s of [[eukaryote]]s ([[filamentous algae]]) have been discovered from Vindhya basin dating back to 1.6 to 1.7&nbsp;billion years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal
| date =May 2009
| pages = 7729–7734
| issue = 19
| journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
| issn = 0027-8424
| doi = 10.1073/pnas.0812460106
| pmc = 2683128
| pmid = 19416859
| volume = 106
| title = The controversial "Cambrian" fossils of the Vindhyan are real but more than a billion years older
| bibcode = 2009PNAS..106.7729B
| last1 = Bengtson | first1 = S.
| last2 = Belivanova | first2 = V.
| last3 = Rasmussen | first3 = B.
| last4 = Whitehouse | first4 = M. | url = https://espace.curtin.edu.au/bitstream/20.500.11937/10114/2/134874_134874.pdf| doi-access = free
}}</ref> Shelled creatures are documented to have first evolved at the start of the Cambrian 'explosion of life', about 550 million years ago.<ref>{{cite news |author=Rex Dalton & Killugudi Jayaraman |title=Indian fossil find resolves fraud accusations |publisher=Nature |url=http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090422/full/news.2009.383.html |doi=10.1038/news.2009.383 |date=22 April 2009}}</ref>