Lower Cretaceous plant fossils from Bairam-Belkher area, District Amravati, Maharashtra and District Betul, Madhya Pradesh and their significance in stratigraphy

A.K. Srivastava; P.D. Banubakode; V.M. Kale; G.V. Patil; S.K. Manik

doi:10.54991/jop.1999.1290

Authors

A.K. Srivastava P.G. Department of Geology, Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India
P.D. Banubakode P.G. Department of Geology, Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India
V.M. Kale P.G. Department of Geology, Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India
G.V. Patil Institute of Science, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
S.K. Manik P.G. Department of Botany, Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1999.1290

Keywords:

Plant megafossils, Early Cretaceous, Upper Gondwana (lndia), Bennettitales, Filicales, Cycadales

Abstract

A plant fossil assemblage comprising of Matonidium indicum, Sphenopteris sp., Cladophlebis indica, Ptilophyllum cutchense, P. acutifolium, Taeniopteris spatulata, T. vittata, Pagiophyllum sp., Brachyphyllum sp., Araucarites cutchense, Elatocladus tenerrinus, E. sp., E. kingianus and Elatocladussp. A has been described from a new locality of the Bairam-Belkher area in District Amravati, Maharastra, and District Betul, Madhya Pradesh. Ptilophyllum and Matonidium are the most abundant genera in this assemblage. An attempt has also been made to compare the present assemblage which shows an affinity with the Lower Cretaceous assemblages of Peninsular India, i.e. Himmatnagar, Gardeshwar, Gollapalle, etc. On the basis of various taxa belonging to Bennettitales and Filicales, a warm and humid climate has been interpreted.