Microbiota from the Suket shales Ramapura Vindhyan system (Late Pre-cambrian) Madhya Pradesh

P.K. Maithy; M. Shukla

doi:10.54991/jop.1974.962

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P.K. Maithy Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India
M. Shukla Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1974.962

Abstract

A comprehensive account of microbiota comprising of algae, fungi and acritarchs are described from the Suket Shales of Ramapura, Madhya Pradesh (Semri Series, Vindhyan System) along with a critical study on the disc-shape impressions or compressions earlier described under Fermoria Chapman. The study shows that these disc-shape forms, Fermoria are either remains of colonial algae or acritarchs (Tasmanites, Nucellosphaeridium etc.). A comparison of Suket Shale microbiota with the known Pre-cambrian microbiota shows that a Late Pre-cambrian age can be assigned to these beds.

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