Palynostratigraphic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographic significance of the Early Cretaceous palynoflora of Kachchh Basin, western India

Authors

  • Madhav Kumar Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, 53 University Road, Lucknow 226 007, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.2018.48

Keywords:

Palynostratigraphy, Palaeoecology, Palaeobiogeography, Early Cretaceous, Kachchh, India

Abstract

Sediments of Bhuj Formation (Early Cretaceous) occur in the Kachchh Basin, western India containing abundant and diverse plant fossils. Sedimentary successions of the formation exposed along Pur River comprise variably thickened shale, carbonaceous shale, thin coal seam, siliceous clays, etc. and have yielded abundant megaspores, microspores, conifer pollen grains, dinoflagellate cysts and colonies of Botryococcus alga. Two palynozones are recognized in the recorded palynoassemblage, viz. Minerisporites cutchensis megaspore zone at the basal part, derived mostly from herbaceous vegetation growing along pro–deltaic swampy habitat. The succeeding Araucariacites australis zone in the upper part of the succession probably derived from conifer–dominated forest inhabited along the freshwater swamps, flourishing in a more humid and warm temperate climate. The palynofloras of both palynozones are biostratigraphically very significant indicating Late Aptian–Early Albian age of the succession. A majority of the palynotaxa recorded from the studied sedimentary succession show resemblance with the contemporaneous deposits of other Gondwana continents of the Southern Hemisphere.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

References

Abbink OA, Van Konijnenburg–Van–Cittert JHA & Visscher H 2004. A sporomorph eco–group model for the Northwest European Jurassic– Lower Cretaceous: concepts and framework. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 83 (1): 17–38.

Archangelsky S & Gamerro JC 1967. Spore and pollen type of the lower Cretaceous in Patagonia (Argentina). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 1: 2–217.

Archangelsky S & Villar de Seoane L 1990. Morphología y estructura de megaspores Cretácicas de Patagonia. Republica Argentina. Revista Española de Micropaleontología, 22: 419–450.

Babu PVLP 2006. On the Ancient Deltas of India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 67: 569–674.

Backhouse J 1988. Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Palynology of the Perth Basin, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 135: 1–233.

Balme BE 1957. Spores and pollen grains from Mesozoic of Western Australia. Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization Technical Communications, CSIRO, Coal Research Section 25: 1–48.

Balme BE 1995. Fossil in situ spores and pollen grains: An annotated catalog. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 87: 81–323.

Banerjee J, Jana BN & Maheshwari HK 1984. The fossil flora of Kachchh–II. Mesozoic Megaspores. Palaeobotanist 33: 190–227. Batten DJ 1969. Some British Wealden megaspores and their facies distribution. Palaeontology 12: 333–350.

Batten DJ & Grenfell HR 1996. Botryococcus. In: Jansonius J & Mc Gregor DC (Editors)–Palynology: Principals and Applications. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA, vol. 1: 205–214.

Batten DJ & Koppelhus EB 1993. Morphological reassessment of some zonate and coronate megaspore genera of mainly post–Palaeozoic age. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 78: 19–40.

Batten DJ & Morrison L 1983. Methods of palynological preparation for palaeoenvironmental, source potential and organic maturation studies. Bulletin Petroleum Directorate Stavanger, Norway 2: 35–53.

Batten DJ, Collin J–P & Néraudeau D 2010. Megaspores from mid– Cretaceous deposits in western France and their biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental significance. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 161: 151–167.

Below R 1984. Aptian to Cenomanian dinoflagellate cysts from the Mazagan Plateau, Northwest Africa, site 545 and 547, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg, 79. In: Hinz K et al. (Editors)–Initial Reports DSDP 79, US Printing Office, Washington, pp. 621–649.

Biswas SK 1977. Mesozoic Rock Stratigraphy of Kutch. Quarterly Journal of the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Society of India 49: 1–152.

Biswas SK 1980. Structure of Kutch–Kathiawar Region, western India. Proceedings of the 3rd Indian Geological Congress Pune, pp. 255–272.

Biswas SK 1982. Rift basins of western margins of India with special reference to hydrocarbon prospects. Bulletin American Association of Petroleum Geologists 66: 1497–1513.

Biswas SK 1987. Regional tectonic framework, structure, and evolution of the western marginal basins of India. Tectonophysics 135: 307–327.

Biswas SK 1991. Stratigraphy and sedimentary evolution of the Mesozoic basin of Kutch, western India. In: Tandon SK (Editor)–Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Evolution of India, pp. 54–103.

Biswas SK 1999. A review on the rift basins in India during Gondwana with special reference to western Indian basins and their hydrocarbon prospects. Proceedings Indian National Science Academy 65: 261–283.

Biswas SK 2002. Sedimentation in a Palaeo ̶ Gulf. In: Biswas SK & Chamyal LS (Editors)–Structure, Tectonics and Mesozoic Stratigraphy of Kachchh, pp. 30–47. Contact Program cum Field Workshop, Organized by Department of Geology, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda.

Bose MN & Banerjee J 1984. The fossil flora of Kachchh–I. Mesozoic Megafossils. Palaeobotanist 33: 1–189.

Brown CA 1960. Palynological techniques. Baton Rouge, Los Angels. Burger D 1974. Palynology of subsurface Lower Cretaceous in the Surat Basin, Queensland. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 150: 27–42.

Burger D 1980. Palynological studies in Lower Cretaceous of the Surat Basin, Australia. Bulletin Australian Government Publishing Services Canberra 189: 1–211.

Carvalho MD 2004. Palynological assemblage from Aptian/Albian of the Sergipe Basin: palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 7: 159–168.

Caudales R, Vega Hernádez E, Sánches–Pérez A & Alain Liogier H 2000. Aquatic and wetland plants of Puerto Rico. I. Pteridophyta. Anals del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 57(2): 333–339.

Chinnappa C & Rajanikanth A 2017. Early Cretaceous flora from the Pranhita–Godavari Basin (east coast of India): taxonomic, taphonomic and palaeoecological considerations. Acta Palaeobotanica 57(2): 13–32.

Clausing A 1999. Palaeoenvironmental significance of the green alga Botryococcus in the Lacustrine Rotliegend (Upper Carboniferous–Lower Permian). Historical Biology 13: 221–234.

Coiffard C, Gomez B, Kvaček J & Thévenard F 2006. Early angiosperm ecology: evidence from the Albian–Cenomanian of Europe. Annals of Botany 81: 495–502.

Cookson IC & Dettmann ME 1958. Cretaceous “megaspores” and a closely associated microspore from the Australian region. Micropalaeontology 4: 39–49.

Cookson IC & Eisenack A 1958. Microplanktons from Australian and New Guinea Upper Mesozoic sediments. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 70 (1): 19–79.

Costa LI & Davey RJ 1992. Dinoflagellate cysts of the Cretaceous System. In: Powell AJ (Editor)–A Stratigraphic Index of Dinoflagellate Cysts. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 99–153.

Dettmann ME 1963. Upper Mesozoic microfloras from south–eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 77: 1–148.

Dettmann ME & Playford G 1968. Taxonomy of some Cretaceous spores and pollen grains from Eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 81: 69–94.

Dettmann ME & Playford G 1969. Palynology of the Australian Cretaceous: a review. In: Campbell KSW (Editor)–Stratigraphy and Palynology Essays in Honour of Dorothy Hill, Australian National University Press, Canberra, pp. 274–210.

Downie C, Hussain MA & Williams GL 1971. Dinoflagellate cysts and acritarch associations in the Palaeogene of southeast England. Geoscience and Man 3: 29–35.

Eisawi AAM, Ibrahim AB, Rahim OBA & Schrank S 2012. Palynozonation of the Cretaceous to Lower Paleogene strata of the Muglad Basin, Sudan. Palynology 36(2): 191–207.

Ferreira NN, Ferreira EE, Ramos RRC & Carvalho IS 2016. Palynological and sedimentary analysis of the Igarapé Ipiranga and Querru outcrops of the Itapecuru Formation (Lower Cretaceous) Paranaíba Basin, Brazil. Journal of the South American Earth Sciences 66: 15–31.

Fürsich FT, Oschmann W, Jaitly AK & Singh IB 1991. Faunal response to transgressive–regressive cycles: examples from the Jurassic of western India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 85: 149–159.

Garcia Massini JL, Jacobs BP, Pan A, Tabor N & Kappelman J 2006. The occurrence of the fern Acrostichum in Oligocene volcanic strata of the Northwestern Ethiopian Plateau. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167(4): 909–918.

Garg R, Khowaja–Ateequzzaman & Jain KP 1987. Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts from India with some remarks on the concept of upper Gondwana. Palaeobotanist 30: 254–267.

Garret M & Kantvilas G 1992. Morphology, ecology and distribution of Isoetes L. in Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 126: 115–122.

Goswami S, Meena KL, Das M & Guru BC 2008. Upper Gondwana palynoflora of Mahanadi Master Basin, Orissa, India. Acta Palaeobotanica 48 (2): 171–181.

Guler MV, Lazo DG, Pazos PJ, Borel CM, Ottone EG, Tyson RV, Cesaretti N & Aguirre–Urreta MB 2013. Palynofacies analysis and palynology of the Agua de la Mula Member (Agrio Formation) in a sequence stratigraphy framework, Lower Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 41: 65–81.

Gunther PR & Hills LV 1972. Megaspores and other palynomorphs from the Brazeau Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Nordegg area, Alberta. Geoscience and Man 4: 29–48.

Guy–Ohlson D 1992. Botryococcus as an aid in the interpretation of palaeoenvironment and depositional processes. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 71: 1–15.

Hallam A 1984. Continental humid and arid zones during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 47: 195–223.

Hallam A 1991. Jurassic climates as inferred from the sedimentary and fossil record. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, London B 341: 287–296.

Helby R & McMinn A 1992. A preliminary report of early Cretaceous dinocyst floras from site 765, Argo Abyssal Plain, Northwest Australia. In: Gradstein FM et al. (Editors)–Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 123, pp. 407–420.

Helby R, Morgan R & Partridge AD 1987. A palynological zonation of the Australian Mesozoic. Memoir Association of the Australian Palaeontologists 4: 1–94.

Herman AB 2002. Late Early–Late Cretaceous floras of the North Pacific Region: florogenesis and early angiosperm invasion. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 122: 1–11.

Herngreen GFW, Kedves M, Rovnina LV & Smirnova SB 1996. Cretaceous palynofloral provinces: A review. In: Jansonius J & McGregor D (Editors)–Palynology: Principles and applications. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA, vol. 3, pp. 1157–1188.

Hickey LJ & Doyle JA 1977. Early Cretaceous fossil evidence for angiosperm evolution. The Botanical Review 43(1): 1–104.

Ied IM & Lashin GMA 2016. Palynostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography of the Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous succession in Korbit–1 well, northeastern Egypt. Cretaceous Research 58: 69–85.

Krassilov VA 2003. Terrestrial Palaeoecology and Global Change. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, 481 pp.

Krauspenhar PM, Carvalho MA, Fauth G & Lana CC 2014. Albian Palynostratigraphy of ODP Leg 207 (Holes 1257A, 1258C and 1260B, Demerara Rise, Equatorial Atlantic. Revue de Micropaleontology 57: 1–13.

Kumar M 2011. Palynofloral and sedimentary organic matter analyses of early Cretaceous sediments exposed along Sher River in Satpura Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India. Geophytology 41: 9–23.

Kumar M, Monga P, Shukla A & Mehrotra RC 2017. Botryococcus from the early Eocene lignite mines of western India: inferences on morphology, taphonomy and palaeoenvironment. Palynology 41(4): 462–471.

Kumar P 1993. Palynology of Chaugan Bed exposed near Khatima caves, Hoshangabad District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Biological Memoirs 19: 1–6.

Kumar P 1994. The Jabalpur Formation of Satpura Basin, Palynology and Palaeoclimate. Proceedings 9th International Gondwana Conference, Hyderabad, Volume 1: 369–385.

Lindström S & Erlström M 2011. The Jurassic–Cretaceous transition of the Fårarp–1 core, southern Sweden: Sedimentological and phytological indications of climate change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 308: 445–475.

Loinaze VSP, Archangelsky S & Cladera G 2012. Palynostratigraphic study of the Early Cretaceous Río Mayer and Kachaike formations at the Quebrada El Moro Section, Austral Basin, southwestern Argentina. Cretaceous Research 34: 161–171.

Macphail MK 1999. Palynostratigraphy of the Murray Basin, inland southeastern Australia. Palynology 23: 197–240.

Maheshwari HK 1975. Palynology of the Athgarh Formation near Cuttack, Orissa. Palaeobotanist 22: 23–28.

Maheshwari HK & Jana BN 1987. Palynozonation of Jhuran and Bhuj formations in Kutch Basin. Palaeobotanist 36: 177–182.

Marcinkiewicz T 1960. Analiza Megasporowa osdów Jurajskich Gorzówa Śląkiego–Praszki (Summary Megaspore Analysis of Jurassic sediments near Gorzówa Śląkie–Praszki (Cracow–Wielunń Region). Kwartnik Geologiczeny Warszawa 4 (3): 713–733.

Marshall KL & Batten DJ 1988. Dinoflagellate cyst associations in Cenomanian–Turonian ‘black shale’ sequences of northern Europe. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 54: 85–103.

Masure E 1988. Albian–Cenomanian dinoflagellate cysts from site 627 and 635, leg 101, Bahamas. In: Austin JA Jr et al. (Editors)–Proceedings Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 101, pp. 101–138.

McElhinni MW 1970. Formation of the Indian Ocean. Nature 228: 977–979. McLachlan IR & Pieterse E 1978. Preliminary palynological results: Site 361, Leg 40, Deep Sea Drilling Project. In: Bolli H et al. (Editors)–Initial Reports of the Deep-Sea Drilling Project 40, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, pp. 857–881.

McLoughlin S 1996. Early Cretaceous macrofloras of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 19–65.

McLoughlin S 2001. The breakup history of Gondwana and its impact on pre–Cenozoic floristic provincialism. Australian Journal of Botany 49(3): 271–300.

Medina E, Cuevas E, Popp M & Lugo AE 1990. Soil salinity, sun exposure, and growth of Acrostichum aureum, the mangrove fern. Botanical Gazette 151(1): 41–49.

Medlicott HB 1872. Note on the exploration of coal in the northern region of the Satpura Basin. Records Geological Survey of India 31: 1–62. Metcalfe I 1994. Gondwanaland origin, dispersion, and accretion of East and Southeast Asian continental terranes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 7: 333–347.

Mohr BAR 1990. Early Cretaceous palynomorphs from ODP sites 692 and 693, the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. In: Barker PF et al. (Editors)– Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results 113, pp. 449–464.

Morgan R 1980. Palynostratigraphy of the Australian Early and Middle Cretaceous. Memoir Geological Survey New South Wales. Palaeontology 18: 1–153.

Mude SN, Raut SD & Wagh R 2012. Palaeo–environmental significance of Ichnofossils from the Bhuj Formation (Gondwana sediments) of the Kachchh Region, Northwestern India. World Journal of Environmental Biosciences 1: 25–29.

Norton IO & Sclater JG 1979. A model for the evolution of the Indian Ocean and the breakup of Gondwanaland. Journal of Geophysical Research 84: 6803–6830.

Ogg G 1992. Early Cretaceous Palynomorphs of the Western Pacific Ocean. In: Larson RL et al. (Editors)–Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 129, pp. 221–228.

Parrish JT 1993. Climate of the supercontinent Pangaea. Journal of Geology 101: 215–233.

Passalia MG, Llorens M, Césari SN, Limarino CO, Loinaze VSP & Vera EI 2016. Revised stratigraphic framework of the Cretaceous in the Bajo Grande area (Argentinean Patagonia) inferred from new U–Pb ages and palynology. Cretaceous Research 60: 152–166.

Paul DK, Ray A, Das B, Patil SK & Biswas SK 2008. Petrology, geochemistry and paleomagnetism of the earliest magmatic rocks of Deccan Volcanic Province, Kutch, Northwest India. Lithos 102: 237–259.

Potonié R 1956. Synopsis der Guttungen der Spore Dispersae. I. Teil: Sporites. Beih. Geologisches Jahrbuch 23: 1–103.

Quattrocchio ME, Martínez MA, Pavisich AC &Volkheimer W 2006. Early Cretaceous palynostratigraphy, palynofacies and palaeoenvironments of well sections in northeastern Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 27(4): 584–602.

Rao PVR, Ramanujam CGK & Varma YNR 1983. Palynology of the Gangapur beds, Pranhita ̶ Godavari Basin, Andhra Pradesh. Geophytology 13(1): 22–45.

Ray A, Patil SK, Paul DK, Biswas SK, Das B & Pant NC 2006. Petrology, geochemistry and magnetic properties of Sadara sill: Evidence of rift– related magmatism from Kutch Basin, northwest India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 27: 907–921.

Retallack GJ 1997. Earliest Triassic origin of Isoetes and Quillwort evolutionary radiation. Journal of Paleontology 71(3): 500–521.

Retallack GJ & Dilcher DL 1986. Cretaceous angiosperm invasion of North America. Cretaceous Research 7(3): 227–252.

Ricou L–E, Besse J, Marcoux J & Patria TP 1990. Un fit Gondwanien revise sur donnees pluridisciplinaires. Comptes rendus de l’ Académie des sciences Series 2.

Riding JB, Crame JA, Dettmann ME & Cantrill DJ 1998. The age of the base of the Gustav Group in the James Ross Basin, Antarctica. Cretaceous Research 19: 87–105.

Saad SI 1978. Palynological studies in the Egyptian Western Desert: Umbarka IX borehole. Pollen et Spores 20(2): 261–301.

Sajjadi F & Playford G 2002a. Systematic and Stratigraphy of Late Jurassic ̶ Earliest Cretaceous strata of the Eromanga Basin, Queensland, Australia, Part I. Palaeontographica B 261: 1–97.

Sajjadi F & Playford G 2002b. Systematic and Stratigraphy of Late Jurassic ̶ Earliest Cretaceous strata of the Eromanga Basin, Queensland, Australia, Part II. Palaeontographica B 261: 99–165.

Scotese CR, Boucot AJ & Mckerrow MS 1999. Gondwanan palaeogeography and palaeoclimatology. Journal of African Earth Sciences 28: 99–114.

Scott L 1976. Palynology of lower Cretaceous deposits from the Algoa Basin (Republic of South Africa). Pollen et Spores 18(4): 563–609.

Singh HP, Srivastava SK & Roy SK 1964. Studies on the Upper Gondwana of Cutch–I. Mio– and Macrospores. Palaeobotanist 12: 282–306.

Taylor WC & Hickey RJ 1992. Habitat, evolution and speciation in Isoetes. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 79: 613–622.

Taylor WC, Luebke NT, Britton DM, Hickey RJ & Brunton DF 1993. Isoëtaceae HGI Reichenback–Quillwort Family. In: Argus GW et al. (Editors)–Flora of North America, Oxford University Press, Oxford volume 2, pp. 64–75.

Torres T, Barale G, Méon H, Philippe M & Thévenard F 1997. Cretaceous floras from Snow Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica) and their biostratigraphic significance. The Antarctic Region: Geological evolution and Processes: 1023–1028.

Tosolini A–MP, McLoughlin S & Drinnan AN 2002. Early Cretaceous megaspore assemblages from southeastern Australia. Cretaceous Research 23: 807–844.

Traverse A 1955. Occurrence of oil–forming alga Botryococcus in lignites and other Tertiary sediments. Micropaleontology 1: 343–350.

Tripathi A 2008. Palynochronology of Lower Cretaceous volcano– sedimentary succession of the Rajmahal Formation in the Rajmahal Basin, India. Cretaceous Research 29: 913–924.

Truswell EM, Dettman ME & O’Brien PE 1999. Mesozoic palynofloras from the Mac. Robertson shelf, East Antarctica: geological and phytogeographic implications. Antarctic Science 11(2): 239–255.

Tryon RM & Tryon AF 1982. Ferns and Allied Plants. Springer–Verlag, Berlin, 857 pp.

Tschudy RH 1976. Stratigraphic distribution of species of the megaspore genus Minerisporites in North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 743E: E1–E10.

Vakhrameev VA 1991. Phytogeography, palaeoclimates and position of the continents in the Mesozoic. In: Hughes NF (Editor)–Jurassic and Cretaceous floras and climates of the Earth, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 242–296.

Venkatachala BS 1967. Palynology of the Umia plant beds of Kutch, western India ̶ 1. Stratigraphic palynology of the Bhuj exposures near Walkamata (Kutch District, Gujarat State). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 5: 163–177.

Venkatachala BS 1969a. Palynology of the Umia plant beds of Kutch, western India ̶ 2. Bhuj exposures near Walkamata. Kutch District, Gujarat State– Systematic Palynology. Palaeobotanist 17: 1–8.

Venkatachala BS 1969b. Palynology of the Mesozoic sediments of Kutch ̶ 4. Spores and pollen from Bhuj exposures near Bhuj, Gujarat District. Palaeobotanist 17: 208–219.

Venkatachala BS & Kar RK 1970. Palynology of the Mesozoic sediments of Kutch, W. India ̶ 10. Palynological zonation of Katrol (Upper Jurassic) and Bhuj (Lower Cretaceous) sediments of Kutch, Gujarat. Palaeobotanist 18: 75–86.

Vijaya 1999. Palynological dating of the Neocommian–Aptian succession in the Indian Peninsula. Cretaceous Research 20: 597–608.

Vijaya & Bhattacharji TK 2002. An Early Cretaceous age for the Rajmahal traps, Panagarh area, West Bengal: Palynological evidence. Cretaceous Research 23: 789–805.

Villar de Seoane L & Archangelsky S 2008. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous megaspores from Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 29: 345–372.

Volkheimer W, Gallego OF, Cabaleri NG, Armella C, Narváez PL, Nieto DGS & Páez MA 2009. Stratigraphy, palynology, and conchostracans of a Lower Cretaceous sequence at the Cañadón Calcáreo locality, Extra– Andean central Patagonia: age and palaeoenvironmental significance. Cretaceous Research 30: 270–282.

Wadia DN 1944. Geology of India. MacMillan and Company Limited, London. Wagstaff BE, Gallagher SJ & Trainor JK 2012. A new subdivision of the Albian spore–pollen zonation of Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 171: 57–72.

Williams GL 1978. Palynological biostratigraphy, Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites 367 and 370. In: Lancelot Y et al. (Editors)–Deep Sea Drilling Project, Washington, Initial Report 4l: 783–815.

Williams GL, Fensome RA & Macrae RA 2017. The Lentin and Williams Index of Fossil Dinoflagellate. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Contributions Series 48: 1–1097.

Zhou Z ̶ K & Momohara A 2005. Fossil history of some endemic seed plants of East Asia and its phytogeographic significance. Acta Metallurgical Sinica 27(5): 449–470

Downloads

Published

2022-01-12

How to Cite

Kumar, M. (2022). Palynostratigraphic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographic significance of the Early Cretaceous palynoflora of Kachchh Basin, western India. Journal of Palaeosciences, 67((1-2), 67–87. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.2018.48

Issue

Section

Research Articles

Most read articles by the same author(s)

1 2 > >>