Triassic Conifer wood from the Tiki Formation, South Rewa Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India

Ram-Awatar; A. Rajanikanth

doi:10.54991/jop.2007.63

Authors

Ram-Awatar Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow 226007, India
A. Rajanikanth Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.2007.63

Keywords:

Conifer wood, Triassic, Tiki Formation, South Rewa Basin, India

Abstract

The present paper records a conifer wood from the Triassic sequence of the Tiki Formation, ~3 km NE of Tiki Village, district Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, India. Since Triassic wood records are hardly known from India when compared to leaf fossils, the present report of podocarpean wood provides additional evidence for the existence of conifers in the otherwise pteridosperm dominated fossil flora of South Rewa Basin during the Carnian-Norian times.

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