Some new conifer remains from the Jabalpur Group

Abstract

Three new species of Elatocladus (viz., E. pseudotenerrima, E. sehoraensis and E. bosei). and two new species of Pagiophyllum (viz., P. sherensis and P. satpuraensis) are described from the Jabalpur Group exposed in the Sher River near Sehora, District Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh. All these species are based upon their epidermal as well as morphological features.

Lower Cretaceous plant fossils from Bairam-Belkher area, District Amravati, Maharashtra and District Betul, Madhya Pradesh and their significance in stratigraphy

“…Remarks-Present specimen malches with E. cOl/ferto (0 & M) Sahn i (1928) in the shape of the leaves Jnd angle of the attachment. [t also shows resemblance with E. lellerril1llls Sahni 1928 and E. pSmdOlel/arillw described by Maheshwari and Kumaran (1976) but differs in well spread out leaves and apex.…”

Floral diversity and implications in palaeoenvironment of Vemavaram Formation (Krishna Depression), Krishna-Godavari Basin, Andhra Pradesh, India

“…However, it differs in leaf angle and size. In having almost similar range of leaf size, P. ommevaramensis is comparable with P. sherensis Maheshwari and Kumaran (1976) known from Sehora, Jabalpur Formation, but differs in other characters such as branching pattern, leaf arrangement and insertion angle. P. grantii Bose and Banerji (1984) is closely comparable with the present species in the arrangement of branches and leaf insertion angle, but differs in leaf size.…”

“…Comparisons were made with material from Indian Early Cretaceous flora (Feistmantel, 1879;Jacob & Jacob, 1954;Vishnu-Mittre, 1957;Bose & Jain, 1967;Gupta & Sharma, 1968;Bose & Sukh-Dev, 1971;Bose & Kasat, 1972;Bose, 1974;Maheshwari & Kumaran, 1976;Bose & Bano, 1978;Mahabale & Satyanarayana, 1979;Bose & Banerji, 1984;Srivastava et al, 1984;Sukh-Dev & Rajanikanth, 1988;Pandya et al, 1990) and also with type material available in the repository of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow. The flora is also compared with species known from Australia (White, 1981;Miller & Lapasha, 1985;McLoughlin, 1996;McLoughlin & Pott, 2009), Antarctica (Halle, 1913;Gee, 1989;Cantrill & Falcon-Lang, 2001), Japan (Oishi, 1936;Kimura & Sekido, 1976;Kimura & Ohana, 1988;Kimura et al, 1991), England (Harris, 1969) South Africa (Anderson & Anderson, 1985), Iran (Barnard & Miller, 1976) and New Zealand (Arber, 1917).…”

Floral diversity of two fossil sites (Dudhkol & Sitalpur) of rajmahal formation, Bihar, India

“…In gross morphology it closcly re,cmbles to a ponion or twig of PagiophyllulII chOlvadel1sis Bose and Banerji (11)84) but di Ilers due to absence of cut iele. In external morphology Pogiot>hyllul1I sherclIsis Maheshwari and Kumaran (1976) shows similarity with PagiophvllwlI sp. The only c1itlcrcncc is that in earlier described species leaves ure sllghlly spreading and have well preserved phylolemma.…”