The fossil flora of the Jabalpur series - 3. Spores and pollen grains

Sukh Dev

doi:10.54991/jop.1959.587

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Sukh Dev Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1959.587

Abstract

The present paper describes spores and pollen grains from the Jabalpur series exposed near Sehora on the Sher river, Narsinghpur district, Madhya Pradesh. For the classification of these spores and pollen grains the morphographic system of Potonie and Kremp (1955, 1956) and Potonie (1956, 1958) has been followed. For those forms which could not be accommodated in the already known genera, six new form-genera have been instituted. The microflora is rich in the Conifer pollen grains and the pollen grains of the Cycadophytes are poorly represented. Among the Pteridophyta, spores belonging to the Lycopodiales, Cyatheaceae and Schizaeaceae are fairly common.

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