The flora from the Permian nonmarine sequences of India and Australia: a comparison in Gondwana Five. Selected papers and abstracts of papers.
In India and eastern Australia the megaflora is divisible into a number of assemblages containing genera in common but different at the specific level. This is considered to have been caused by homoplasy rather than by close proximity of India
with each other and probably with South America, may have provided a passage for the migration of early marsupials until well into Eocene time. Peninsular India may have been connected to Africa until very late Cretaceous time.