Occurrence of Pterophyllum in the Parsora Beds, South Rewa, India

Leaf galls onDicroidium hughesii(Feistmantel) Lele from the Triassic of India—a new record

“…1A, B Geological setting Pal (1985) referred the strata at Dhaurai Hill to the Parsora Formation based on their lithology and fossil macroflora. The Parsora Formation is about 400 m thick, comprises a basal siltstone-mudstone succession overlain by predominantly arenaceous facies, and incorporates a Dicroidium-bearing macroflora (Feistmantel 1882, Lele 1953, 1955, 1962a, 1962b, 1963, 1969, Rao & Lele 1963, Maheshwari & Banerji 1978, Pal 1985, Pal et al 1990) that ascribes a Triassic age. More recent biostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic evidence (Mukherjee et al 2012), especially macrofloral data (from Parsora, Beli, Goira, Chicheria and Dhaurai Hill localities; Chatterjee et al 2013), suggest that the age of the formation is much younger than Early Triassic and favour a Norian to Rhaetian age for the Parsora Formation (Fig.…”

On the cuticle of Dicroidium (Thinnfeldia) sahnii (Seward) with some observations on the genera Thinnfeldia and Dicroidium

“…It would not be surprising if this transitional flora shows an overlapping of the genera Dicroidium as well as Thinnfeldia. Lele (1953Lele ( , 1955Lele ( , 1961a has further pointed out that the characteristic Mesozoic genera Pterophyllum, 111arattiopsis, Pseudoc tenis, Baiera, Cladophlebis and Araucari tes are represented in the Parsora stage. Indeed, the Parsora flora was probably a truly mixed flora and putting it in a popular way was the meeting place of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic floras in •India.…”

Floristic evidence on the age of Gondwana beds near Nidpur, Sidhi district, Madhya Pradesh

“…The Parsora Stage (Middle-Upper Triassic) is represented by quite a few genera and species which are not known from Nidpur. The flora from Parsora Stage in detail has been described by Feistmantel (1882), Cotter (1917), Seward (1932), Saksena (1962), Lele (1953Lele ( , 1955Lele ( , 1961aLele ( , 1961bLele ( , 1962Lele ( , 1969, Rao & Lele (1960, Vimal & Singh (1968) and Rao (1954;in Krishnan, (1958), Rao & Shukla (1954;in Krishnan 1958).…”