Studies in the Glossopteris flora of India - 42. Barakar plant megafossils and miospores from Auranga coalfield, Bihar

A.K. Srivastava

doi:10.54991/jop.1975.972

Authors

A.K. Srivastava Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1975.972

Abstract

The paper deals with the morphological details of eleven species of Glossopteris, viz., G. indica, G. barakarensis, G. leptoneura, G. juchsii, G. conspicua, G. sp. cf G. ampla, G. pandurata, G. sp. cf G. intermittens, G. churiensis sp. nov., G. communis, G. browniana and Vertebraria indica.

The mioflora (31 genera and 53 species) is dominated by striate disaccate pollen grains and trilete spores. A new non striate disaccate genus Aurangapollenites is instituted for the grains having pitcher shaped saccus arrangement.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

References

Arber EAN 1905. Catalogue of the fossil plants of the Glossopteris flora in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History) London.

Archangelsky S 1957. Las Glossopterideas London. del Bajo dela leona. Revta Asoc. geol. argent. 12 (3): 13-164.

Archangelsky S 1958. Estudio Paleontologico del Bajo de la Leona, Santa Cruz. Acta geol. lilloana. 2: 5-13.

Archangelsky S & Arrondo OG 1965. Elementos Floristicos del Permico Argentino I, las glossopterideas de la “serie Nueva lu becka" Provincia & Chubut. Revta Mus. La Plata 26 (4): 259-264.

Bharadwaj DC 1962. The miospore genera in the coals of Raniganj Stage (Upper Permian) India. The Palaeobotanist. 9 (1-2): 68-106. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1960.600

Bharadwaj DC 1974. Palynological subdivisions of Damuda Series. Aspects and Appraisal of Indian Palaeobotany, (Eds. Surange, K. R. et al.) Lucknow.: 392-396.

Bhattacharya AK 1963. The assemblage of mega-plant fossils from the Lower Gondwana rocks of the western part of the Auranga Valley Coalfield. Palamau District, Bihar. Q. Jl geol. Min. metall. Soc. India. 35 (2): 123-128.

Bhattacharya B 1959. On the Flora of the Auranga Coalfield. Palamau District, Bihar. Ibid. 31 (1): 23-27.

Brongniart Adolphe 1828. Histoire des vegetaux fossiles ou Researches Botaniques et Geologiques sur les vegetaux renfermess dans les diverse couches du globe. Paris.

Bunbury CJF 1861. Notes on a collection of fossil plants from Nagpur, Central India. Q. Jl. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17: 325-346.

Cridland AA 1963. A Glossopteris Flora from the Ohio Range Antarctica. Am. J. Bot. 50 (2): 186-195.

Dana JD 1849. Wilkes, United States Exploring Expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes U.S. No. 10 (Geology) New York.

Dolaianiti E 1948. A paleobotánica no Brasil. Div. Geol. Min.-Boletin N. 123 Rio de Janeiro.

DuToit AL 1927. Fossil flora of the Upper Karroo beds. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 22 (2): 290-420.

Edwards WN 1928. The occurrence of Glossopteris in the Beacon Sandstone of Ferrar Glacier, South Victoria land. Geol. Mag. 65 (769):323-327.

Feistmantel O 1881a. The fossil flora of the Gondwana System. II. The flora of the Damuda and Panchet Divisions. Mem. geol. Surv. India Palaeont. indica. Ser. 12, 3 (2): 78-149.

Feistmantel O 1881b. Palaeontological notes from the Hazaribagh and Lohadaga District. Rec. geol. Surv. India. 14 (3): 241-245.

Feistmantel O 1882. Fossil flora of the Gondwana System. IV. The fossil flora of the South Rewa Gondwana Basin. Mem. geol. Surv. India Palaeont. indica. Ser. 12, 4 (1): 1-52.

Feistmantel O 1886. The fossil flora of the Gondwana System. IV. The fossil flora of some of the coalfields in Western Bengal. Ibid. 4 (2): 1-66.

Feistmantel O 1890. Geological and Palaeontological relations of the Coal and plant bearing age in Eastern Australia and Tasmania etc. Mem. geol. Surv. N.S.W. (Palaeont.) 3: 1-183.

Gothan W 1914. Die fossile flora des Tete-Beckens and Sambesi. Branca Festchrift.: 11- 15.

Halle TG 1911. On the geological structure and history of the Falkland Island. Bull. geol. Instn. Univ. Upsala. 11: 115-229.

Harrington H 1934. Sobre la presencia de restos de le flora de Glossopteris en las sierras Australes de Buenos Aires Y Su significations dela serie glacial Y series superiores. Revta Mus. La Plata. 34: 303-338.

Hoeg OA & Bose MN 1960. The Glossopteris flora of the Belgian Congo. Annis Mus. r. Afr. cent. Ser. 8° Sci. geol. 32: 1-99.

Kar RK 1973. Palynological delimitation of the Lower Gondwana in the North Karanpura basin. India. The Palaeobotanist. 20 (3): 300-317. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1971.909

Kulkarni S 1971. Glossopteris and Gangamopteris species from South Karanpura Coalfield. The Palaeobotanist. 18 (3): 297-304. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1969.847

Lundquist G 1919. Fossil Pflanzen der Glossopteris Flora an Brasiliensis. K. svenska Vetensk Akad. Handl. 60 (3): 1-36.

Maheshwari HK & Prarash G 1965. Studies in the Glossopteris flora of India-21. Plant megafossils from the Lower Gondwana exposures along Bansloi River in Rajmahal Hills, Bihar. The Palaeobotanist. 13 (2): 115-128. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1964.687

Maithy PK 1965. Studies in the Glossopteris flora of India-26. Glossopteridales from the Karharbari beds, Giridih Coalfield, India. The Palaeobotanist. 13 (3): 248-263. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1964.701

Maithy PK 1971. Fossil flora of the Barakar stage in Auranga Coalfield. The Palaeobotanist. 19 (1): 70-75. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1970.854

Maithy PK 1974b. The Lower Gondwana plants of India and their stratigraphic significance. Cr. VII. int. Stratigr. Geol. Carbonif. Krefeld. 1971 (3): 385-390.

Maithy PK 1974b. Megafloristic subdivisions Damuda Series. Aspects and Appraisal of Indian Palaeobotany, (Eds. Surange, et al.) Lucknow: 386-391.

Pant DD 1958. The structure of some leaves and fructifications of Glossopteris flora of Tanganyika. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. 3 (4): 127-176.

Pant DD & Gupta KL 1968. Cuticular structure of some Indian Lower Gondwana species of Glossopteris Brongniart Pt. I. Palaeontographica. 124 (B): 45-81.

Pant DD & Gupta KL 1971. Cuticular structure of some Indian Lower Gondwana species of Glossopteris Brongniart Part 2. Ibid. 132 (B), (1-4): 130-152.

Plumstead EP 1952. Description of two new genera and six new species of fructifications borne on Glossopteris leaves. Trans. geol. Soc. S. Afr. 55: 281-328.

Plumstead EP 1956: Bisexual fructifications borne on Glossopteris leaves from South Africa. Palaeontographica. 100: 1-25.

Plumstead EP 1958a. Further fructifications of the Glossopteridae and a Provisional-classifications based on them. Trans. geol. Soc. S. Afr. 61: 51-75.

Plumstead EP 1958b. The habit of growth of Glossopteridae. Ibid. 61: 81-84.

Plumstead EP 1962. Fossil floras of Antarctica. Trans. Antarctica. expedition. Sci. Rep. 9: 1-154.

Read CB 1941. Plantas fosseis do Neo-Palaeozoic do Parana e Santa Catarina. Geol. Min. Monogr. 12: 1-102.

Rigby JF 1966. The Lower Gondwana Floras of the Perth and Collie Basins, Western Australia. Palaeontographica. 118B (4-6): 113-152.

Rizvi SRA 1972. Geology and sedimentation trends in Palamau Coalfield, Bihar. India. Mem. geol. Surv. India. 104: 1-108.

Saksena SD 1962a. On fossil flora of Ganjra Nala Bed, South Rewa, Part I. Macrofossils The Palaeobotanist. 11 (1 & 2): 23-29. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1962.617

Schopf JM 1962. A preliminary report plant remains and coal of the Sedimentary section in the Central range of the Horlick Mountains, Antarctica. F.P.S. Report 2-Project. 1132: 1-61.

Seward AC 1897. On the association of Sigillaria and Glossopteris in South Africa Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond. 53: 315-338.

Seward AC 1903. Fossil flora of Cape Colony. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 4: 1-122.

Seward AC 1912. Lower Gondwana plants from the Golabagarh Pass, Kashmir. Mem, geol. Surv India Palaeont. indica. n.s. 4 (3): 1-10.

Seward AC & Walton J 1923. On fo plants from the Falkland Islands. Q. Jl. Geol. Soc. Lond. 79 (3): 313-333.

Smith AHV & Butterworth AM 1967. Miospores in the coal seams of the Carboniferous of Great Britain. London.

Srivastava AK 1977. Palaeobotanical evidence for the presence of Karharbari Stage in the Auranga Coalfield, Bihar: Megaflora The Palaeobotanist. 23 (3): 206-219. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1974.964

Srivastava PN 1956. Studies in the Glossopteris flora of India-4. Glossopteris, Gangamopteris & Palaeovittaria from the Raniganj Coalfield. The Palaeobotanist. 5 (1): 1-45. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1956.483

Srivastava SC & Anand-Prakash 1973. Palynological studies in Auranga Coalfield. Geophytology. 3 (1): 106-110.

Tiwari RS 1965. Miospore assemblage in some coals of Barakar Stage (Lower Gondwana) of India. The Palaeobotanist. 13 (2): 168-214. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1964.694

Tiwari RS 1968. Palynological investigations of some coal seams in the Ib River Coalfield (Orissa), India. The Palaeobotanist. 16 (3): 222-242. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1967.523

Tiwari RS 1973. Palynological succession in the Barakar type area. Geophytology. 3 (2): 166-183.

Tiwari RS 1974. Interrelationships of palynofloras in the Barakar Stage (Lower Gondwana), India. Ibid. 4 (2): 111-129.

Venkatachala BS & Kar RK 1965. Two new trilete spore genera from the Permian of India. The Palaeobotanist. 13 (3): 337-340. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1964.707

Venkatachala BS & Kar RK 1968. Palynology of the Karanpura Sedimentary Basin, Bihar India-1. Barakar Stage at Badam The Palaeobotanist. 16 (1): 56-90. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1967.504

Walkom AB 1922. Palaeozoic floras of Queensland-I. The flora of the Lower and Upper Bowen Series. Qd. geol. Suru. Publ. no. 270: 1-64.

Walkom AB 1928. Notes on some additions to the Glossopteris flora in New South Wales. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 53 (3): 255-269.

White D 1908. Fossil flora of the Coal Measures of Brazil. Com. Est. Minas. Car. De Pedra. 3: 337-617.

Zeiller R 1896. Etudes sur quelques fossiles, en particulier Vertebraria et Glossopteris des environs de Johannesburg Bull. Soc. geol. Fr. 23: 601-629.

Zeiller R 1902. Observations sur quelques plantes fossils des Lower Gondwanas. Mem. geol. Surv. India Palaeont. indica. N.S. 2 (1): 1-40.