The Mesozoic and Tertiarty Flora of India - A Review

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Bose, M. N. (1952). Plant remains from Barmer district, Rajasthan. Jour. Sci. Industr. Res. 11B(5): 185-190.

Idem (1953). Bucklandia Sahni sp. nov. from the Jurassic of the Rajmahal hills, Bihar.

Chowdhury, K. A. (1938). Two fossil dicotyledonous woods from Garo hills, Assam. Res. Geol. Surv. India. 73(2): 247-266.

Chowdhury, K. A. (1952). On the Tertiary flora of eastern India. The Palaeobotanist. 1 (Sahni Mem. Vol.): 121-125. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1952.405

Chowdhury, K. A. & Ghosh, S. S. (1946). On the anatomy of Cynometroxylon indicum gen. et sp. nov., a fossil dicotyledonous wood from Nailalung, Assam. Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India. 12(8): 435-447.

Chowdhury, K. A. & Tandon, K. K. (1949). Kayeoxylon assamicum gen. et sp. nov., a fossil dicotyledonous wood from Assam. Ibid. 15(2): 49-65.

Cotter, G. DE P. (1917). A revised classification of the Gondwana System. Rec. Geol. Surv. India. 48(1): 23-33.

Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1939). A carbonaceous Jurassic shale from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica. 21(3): 193-194.

Feistmantel, O. (1876). Fossil flora of the Gondwana System. 2(1). Jurassic (Oolitic) flora of Kach. Pal. Indic.

Idem (1877). Ibid. 1(2). Jurrassic (Liassic) flora of the Rajmahal group in the Rajmahal group in the Rajmahal hills.

Idem (1877a). Ibid. 1(3). Jurrassic (Liassic) flora of the Rajmahal group from Gollapilli near Ellore, South Godavari.

Idem (1877b). Ibid. 2(2). Flora of the Jabalpur group (Upper Gondwanas) in the Son-Narbada region.

Idem (1877c). Notes on fossil floras of India. 14 – On a tree-fern stem from the Cretaceous rocks near Trichinopoly in Southern India. Rec. Geol. Surv. India. 10(3): 133-137.

Idem (1879). Fossil flora of the Gondwana System. 1(4). Upper Gondwana flora of the outliers of the Madras Coast. Pal. Indica.

Idem (1880). Ibid. 3(2). Flora of Damuda – Panchet divisions.

Idem (1881). Ibid. 3(3). Ibid.

Idem (1882). Ibid. 4(1). Flora of South Rewah Gondwana basin.

Fox, C. S. (1931). The Gondwana System and related formations. Mem. Geol. Surv. India. 58.

Ganju, P. N. (1947). On Beaniopsis rajmahalensis gen. et. sp. nov., a new type of gymnosperm female fructifications from the Jurassic of Bihar. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 25B(5): 95-104.

Idem (1947a). Ontheanthus polyandra gen. et sp. nov., a new type of fossil gymnosperm male fructifications from Rajmahal hills. Ibid.: 105-118.

Idem (1947b). Ontheostrobus sessilis gen. et sp. nov., a new type of seed-bearing gymnosperm fructifications from the Jurassic of Onthea in the Rajmahal hills. Ibid.: 191-124.

Gupta, K. M. (1943). A new species of Williamsonia (W. Sahni) from the Rajmahal hills. Jour. Ind. Bot. Soc. 22(2-4): 191-200.

Hsu, J. & Bose, M. N. (1952). Further information on Homoxylon rajmahalense Sahni. Jour. Ind. Bot. Soc. 31(1-2): 1-12.

Jacob, K. (1938). Jurassic plants from Tabbowa, N.W. Ceylon. Proc. 25th Ind. Sci. Cong. Pt. 3:152-153.

Jacob, K. & Aiyengar, N. K. N. (1942). Palaeobotany in India – III. Jour. Ind. Bot. Soc. 21 (3-4): 220.

Jacob, K. (1943). Palaeobotany in India – IV. Jour. Ind. Bot. Soc. 22 (2-4): 175.

Kaul, K. N. (1942). The anatomy of the stem of palms and the problem of the artificial genus palmoxylon Schenk. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. Session 154 (1941-42). Pt. 2: 65-68.

Idem (1951). A palm fruit from Kapurdi (Jodhpur, Rajasthan desert), Cocos Sahni sp. nov. curr. Sci. 20: 138.

Lakhanpal, R. N. (1948). Palaeobotany in India – VI. Jour. Ind. Bot. Soc. 26(4): 261-262.

Lakhanpal, R. N. & Bose, M. N. (1951). Some Tertiary leaves and fruits of the Guttiferae from Rajasthan. Jour. Ind. Bot. Soc. 30(1-4): 132-136.

Lakhanpal, R. N. (1952). Nipa Sahnii, a palm fruit in the Tertiary of Assam. The Palaeobotanist. 1 (Sahni Mem. Vol.): 289-294. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1952.413

Lele, K. M. (1954). Occurrence of Pterophyllum in the parsora beds, South Rewah, India. Nature. 172 (4391): 1185.

Mahabale, T. S. (1950). A species of fossil salvinia from the Deccan Intertrappean Series, India. Nature. 165-410.

Idem (1953). Occurrence of Sparganium in the Deccan Intertrappeans of Madhya Pradesh, India. Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India. 19(5): 623-628.

Mehta, K. R. & Sud, J. D. (1953). On some Ginkgoalean leaf impressions from the Rajmahal hill, Bihar. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 51-53. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.432

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Oldham, T. & Morries, J. (1863). Fossil flora of the Gondwana System. 1(1). Fossil flora of the Rajmahal series in the Rajmahal hills. Pal. Indica.

Pia, J., Rao, S. R. N. & Rao, K. S. (1937). Dasycladaceen aus zwischenlagen des Dekkantrapps bei Rajahmundry in Sudindien. Stiz. d. Akad d. Wissen.:227-234.

Raj Nath (1953). On the Upper limit of the Gondwana System. The Palaeobotanist. 1 (Sahni Mem. Vol.): 382-385. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1952.397

Ramanujam, C. G. K. (1953). Palmoxylon arcotense sp. nov., a fossil palm, resembling the living genus livistona, from South India. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 89-91. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.438

Idem (1953). On two new species of mesembrioxylon from the vicinity of Pondicherry, South India. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 101-106. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.439

Idem (1953). Fossil woods resembling Mangifera, Shorea and Albizzia in the Tertiary racks of South Arcot, India. Curr. Sci.22: 336-337.

Idem (1954). Fossil woods belonging to Guttiferae, Celastraceae, Leguminosae, Sonneratiaceae and Euphorbiaceae from Tertiary rocks of South Arcot district, Madras. (In press.)

Rao, A. R. (1943). The structure and affinities of Taeniopteris spatulata McCl. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. India. 13(6): 333-355.

Idem (1943a). Jurassic spores and sporangia from the Rajmahal hills, Bihar. Ibid. 13(3): 181-197.

Idem (1946). Nipanioruha granthia gen. et sp. nov., a new petrified coniferous shoot from the Rajmahal hill, Bihar. Jour. Ind. Bot. Soc. (Iyengar Comm. Vol.): 389-397.

Idem (1949). The megastrobilus of Nipanioruha granthia Rao. Curr. Sci. 18: 447-448.

Idem (1950). Two hitherto unreported plant fossils from the Rajmahal hills, Bihar. Ibid. 12: 378-380.

Idem (1953). Some observations on the Rajmahal flora. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 25-28. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.427

Rao, A. R. & Vimal, K. P. (1952). Tertiary pollen from lignites from Palana (Eocene), Bikaner. Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India. 18(6): 596-601.

Idem (1952a). preliminary observations on the plant microfossil content of some lignites from Warakalli in Travancore. Curr. Sci. 21: 302-305.

Rao, K. S. & Rao, S. R. N. (1939). The fossil charophyta of the Deccan Intertrappeans near Rajahmundry, India. Mem. Geol, Surv. India, Pal. Ind. (N.S.). 29(2): 1-14.

Rao, K. S. (1943). Fossil algae from Assam: 1. The Corallinaceae. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. India. 13(5): 265-299.

Rao, L. R. & Pia, J. (1936). Fossil algae from the uppermost Cretaceous beds (the Niniyur group) of the Trichinopoly district, South India. Mem. Geol. Surv. India, Pal. Ind. (N.S.). 21(4): 1-49.

Rao, L. R. & Rao, K. S. (1939). Fossil algae in the Eocene beds of the salt Range. Curr. Sci. 8(11): 512.

Rao, L. R. & Rao, K. S. (1937). Holosporella ct. H. siamensis pia from the Rajahmundry limestones. Rec. Geol. Surv. India. 71(4): 397-399.

Rao, S. R. N. (1941). An algal flora from the Lockhart limestone (Ranikot series) of the Samana range (N.W. India). Jour. Mysore Univ. 2(7): 41-53.

Idem (1946). On two species of Solenopora from the Cullygoody limestone of the Trichinopoly district, S. India. Jour. Ind. Bot. Soc. (Iyengar Comm. Vol.): 331-337.

Rao, S. R. N. & Verma, C. P. (1953). Fossil algae from the Salt Range. II. Solenomeris (?) Douvillei sp. nov. from the Laki (Lower Eocene) limestones. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 21-23. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.428

Sah, S. C. D. (1953). On some species of Ginkgoites from the Jurassic of the Rajmahal hills, Bihar. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 55-58. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.431

Idem (1953). Spores and other micro-remains from a carbonaceous shale (Jurassic) in Andigama, Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica. 27 (1): 1-12.

Sahni, B. (1921). The present position of Indian Plaeobotany. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal. (N.S.). 17(4): 152-175.

Idem (1928). Revisions of Indian fossil plants: Pt. 1. Coniferales. (a. Impressions and incrustations). Mem. Geo. Surv. India, Pal. Indica. (N.S.). 11: 1-49.

Idem (1931). Revisions of Indian fossil plants: Pt. 2. Coniferales. (b. Petrifactions). Ibid. 11: 51-124.

Idem (1931a). material for a monograph of the Indian petrified palms. Proc. Acad. Sci. U.P. 1: 140-144.

Idem (1936). The occurrence of Matanidium and Weichselia in India. Rec. Geol. Surv. India. 71(2): 152-165.

Idem (1938). Recent advances in Indian palaeobotany. Lucknow Univ. Studies. 2: 1-100.

Idem (1940). The Deccan Traps: an episode of the Tertiary era. Proc. 27th Ind. Sci. Cong. Madras. (2): 1-21.

Idem (1941). Indian silicified plants. 1. Azolla intertrappea Sahni & H. S. Rao. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 14(6) B: 489-499.

Idem (1943). Indian silicified plants. 2. Enigmocarpon Parijai, a silicified fruit from the Deccan, with a review of the fossil history of the Deccan, with a review of the fossil history of the Lythraceae. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 17(3) B: 59-96.

Idem (1943a). Palaeobotany in India _ IV. Jour. Ind. Bot. Soc. 22(2-4): 180.

Idem (1948). The Pentoxyleae: a new group of Jurassic gymnosperms from the Rajmahal hills of India. Bot. Gaz. 110(1): 47-80.

Idem (1953). Angiosperm leaf impression from the Kasauli beds. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 85-87. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.436

Sahni, B & Rao, A. R. (1935). Further observations on Rajmahalia paradoxa. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci.1(11): 710-713.

Sahni, B & Rode, K. P. (1937). Fossil plants from the Intertrappean beds at Mohgaon Kalan in the Deccan, with a sketch of the geology of the Chhindwara district. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. India. 7(3): 165-174.

Sahni, B. & Rao, H. S. (1943). A silicified flora from the Intertrappean cherts round Sausar in the Deccan. Ibid. 13(1): 36-75.

Sahni, B. & Rao, S. R. N. (1943). On Chara sausari sp. nov., a Chara (sensu stricto) from the Intertrappean cherts at Sausar in the Deccan. Ibid. 13(3): 215-223.

Sahni, B & Sitholey, R. V. (1945). Some Mesozoic ferns from the Salt Range, Punjab. Ibid. 15(3): 61-73.

Sahni, B Sitholey, R. V. & Puri, G. S. (1948). Palaeobotany in India – VI. Jour . Ind. Bot. Soc. 26(4): 262-263.

Sahni, B. & Surange, K. R. (1953). On the structure and affinities of cyclanthodendron Sahni (Rode) Sahni & Surange from the Deccan Intertrappean series. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 93-100. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.440

Saksena, S. D. (1952). Correlation of the Gondwanas based on evidence of plant fossils. Agra Univ. Jour. Res. 1: 1-13.

Seward, A. C. (1912). Dicotyledonous leaves from the coal measures of Assam. Rec. Geol. Surv. India. 42:93.

Seward, A. C. & Sahni, B. (1920). Indian Gondwana plants: a revision. Mem. Geol. Surv. India, Pal. Ind. 7(1): 1-41.

Seward, A. C. & Holttum, R. E. (1922). Jurassic plants from Ceylon. Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. 78(3).

Singh, T. C. N. & Natarajan, A. T. (1950). Angiospermic remains from the Barmer sandstone. Curr. Sci. 19: 124-125.

Shukla, V. B. (1944). On Sahnianthus, a new genus of petrified flowers from the Intertrappean beds at Mohgaonkalan in the Deccan and its relation with the fruit Enigmocarpon Parijai from the same locality. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. India. 14(1-2): 1-39.

Sitholey, R. V. (1943). Plant remains from the Triassic of the Salt Range, Punjab. Ibid. 13(5): 300-327.

Idem (1944). Jurassic plants from the Tabbowa series in Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica. 24(1): 1-17.

Idem (1949). Protopteris nammalensis sp. nov., a Jurassic Cyatheaceous tree-fern from the Salt Range, Punjab. Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India. 15(1): 1-10.

Sitholey, R. V. & Bose, M. N. (1953). Williamsonia santalensis sp. nov. – a male fructification from the Rajmahal series, with remarks on the structure of ontheanthus polyandra Ganju. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 29-39. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.429

Srivastava, B. P. (1945). Silicified plant remains from the Rajmahal series of India. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. India. 15(6): 185-211.

Varma, C. P. (1953). On Lithophyllum Wynnei sp. Nov. (Coralinaceae) from the Laki (lower Eocene) beds of the Nammal Gorge, Salt Range, Punjab. Jour. Sci. Industr. Res. 12(3): 86-87.

Vishnu-Mittre (1953). A male flower of the Pentoxyleae, with remarks on the structure of the female cones of the group. The Palaeobotanist. 2: 75-84. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1953.435

Wadia, D. N. (1953). Geology of India. 3rd Ed. London.

Walton, J. (1925). On a calcareous alga belonging to the Triploporellideae (Dasycladaceae) from the Tertiary of India. Rec. Geol. Surv. India. 56(3): 213-219.