Fossil floras of Kutch- Part VI. Jurassic dinoflagellates

K.P. Jain; B.N. Jana; H.K. Maheshwari

doi:10.54991/jop.1986.1511

Authors

K.P. Jain Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India
B.N. Jana Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India
H.K. Maheshwari Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1986.1511

Keywords:

Palynology, Dinoflagellates, Acritarchs, Jhuran Formation, Jurassic (India)

Abstract

Fossil dinoflagellate cysts and acritarchs have been reported and described from the various members of the Jhuran Formation exposed at a number of localities in the Kutch Basin. The assemblage comprises 31 species referable to 24 genera. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative analyses the age of the dinoflagellate assemblage has been concluded to be Upper Oxfordian to Kimmeridgian, probably extending up to Pectinatites pectinatus zone.