Palynology of the upper cretaceous of the Bengal basin, India

Proposed new realignments in the angiosperms

“…The short list of striate pollen grains given by Baksi & Deb (1981), which includes Fabaceae as well as Burseraceae, Anacardiaceae and Hippocastanaceae (Krameriaceae could have been added to the list), is further confirmation of the links of Fabineae with Rutineae and Sapindineae that I have stressed elsewhere (Thorne 1981) by placing Fabineae, with Fabaceae, Connaraceae and Surianaceae, next to Sapindineae in Rutiflorae. In the monumental two volume Advances in Legume Systematics edited by Polhill & Raven (1981), Dickison has considered the evolutionary relationships of Fabaceae.…”

Middle and late paleocene angiosperm pollen from Pakistan

“…Venkatachala (1974) and Kar (1985) did not list this species as being present in the Upper Cretaceous or lower Tertiary of the Cauvery Basin or southwestern India. Baksi and Deb (1980) reported that in the Bengal Basin, S. baculatus has its highest stratigraphic occurrence in the lower of their two Paleocene spore/pollen zones. Germeraad et al (1968) stated that in northern South America, Nigeria, and Borneo, S. baculatus is the more abundant species in the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene, whereas 5. prominatus predominates in younger rocks.…”

“…Little work has been published on spores and pollen from the lower Paleocene of India; therefore, many Indian authors have only a single pollen zone for the Paleocene. However, Baksi and Deb (1980) divided the upper(?) Paleocene sequence of the Bengal Basin (Text- Figure 5) into two spore/pollen zones; the upper Paleocene material from the Lower Indus coal region of southern Pakistan belongs to the higher of these two zones, the Proxapertites cursus Zone, because of the presence of Incrotonipollis burdwanensis.…”

Pteridology in the New Millennium

“…Srivastava (1968) further added that the glochidia of this species characteristically show a constriction at the junction of the foot and the stalk. The taxon has been reported from the Maastrichtian sequence of Cauvery Basin, South India (Venkatachala and Sharma, 1974), Campanian-Maastrichtian deposits of Krishna-Godavari Basin (Venkatachala and Sharma, 1982), Maastrichtian of Bengal Basin (Baksi and Deb, 1981); Padwar Deccan Intertrappean, Jabalpur (Prakash et al, 1990), Ranipur Intertrappean Bed, Jabalpur (Mathur and Sharma, 1990). The taxon has been reported from the Maastrichtian sequence of Cauvery Basin, South India (Venkatachala and Sharma, 1974), Campanian-Maastrichtian deposits of Krishna-Godavari Basin (Venkatachala and Sharma, 1982), Maastrichtian of Bengal Basin (Baksi and Deb, 1981); Padwar Deccan Intertrappean, Jabalpur (Prakash et al, 1990), Ranipur Intertrappean Bed, Jabalpur (Mathur and Sharma, 1990).…”