Cuticular fragments from the Makum Coalfield, Tinsukia District, Assam and their palaeoclimatic significance

Phytomorphology: An International Journal of Plant Morphology

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 269-284

  Tewari, Rajni ^a   Mehrotra, R C ^a  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

Assam; Cuticles; Oligocene; Tilak Parbat Formation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELLS; CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; TROPICS;

ASSAM, INDIA; CUTICLES; OLIGOCENE; TILAK PARBAT FORMATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 4544239325     PISSN: 00319449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Agarwal A, Tewari R & Ambwani K 2002 Dispersed angiospermous leaf cuticles from Sindhudurg Formation, Miocene, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, India, Phytomorphology 52 29-40
2. Awasthi N & Mehrotra RC 1995 Oligocene flora from Makum Coalfield, Assam, India, Palaeobotanist 44 157-188
3. Cutler DF 1982 Cuticular sculpture and habitat in certain Aloe species (Liliaceae) from Southern Africa, In The Plant Cuticle pp 425-444 eds DF Cutler, KL Alvin & CE Price (The Linnean Society, Academic Press: London, England)
4. Dalvi NS & Kulkarni AR 1982 Leaf cuticles from Lignite Beds of Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, Geophytology 12 223-232
5. Dilcher DL 1974 Approaches to the identification of angiospermous leaf remains, Bot. Rev. 40 1-157
6. Dilcher DL & Daghlian CL 1977 Investigations of angiosperms from the Eocene of South-eastern North America : Philodendron leaf remains, Am. J. Bot. 64 526-534
7. Dilcher DL & Manchester SR 1986 Investigations of angiosperms from the Eocene of North America: Leaves of the Englehardieae (Junglandaceae), Bot. Gaz. 147 189-199
8. Dolph G 1975 A statistical analysis of Apocyanophyllum mississippienses, Palaeontographica, 151 1-51
9. Fahn A 1967 Plant Anatomy (Pergamon Press : New York, USA)
10. Herndeen PS & Dilcher DL 1990 Fossil mimosoid legumes from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern North America, Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 62 339-361
11. th Int bot. Cong. Stockholm 572-573
12. Joshi A, Tewari R, Mehrotra RC, Chakraborty PP & De A 2003 Plant remains from the Upper Siwalik sediments of West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, J. geol. Soc. India 61 319-342
13. Kovach WL & Dilcher DL 1984 Dispersed cuticles from the Eocene of North America, Bot. J. Linn Soc. 88 63-104
14. Krassilov VA 1973 Cuticular structures of Cretaceous angiosperms from Far East of the USSR, Palaeontographica 142 105-116
15. Kulkarni AR & Phadtare NR 1980 Leaf epidermis of Nypa from lignite beds of Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, Geophytology 10 125-128
16. Lowson JM & Sahni M 1949 Lowson's Textbook of Botany (University Tutorial Press Ltd: London 607 pp)
17. Mehrotra RC 2000 Two fossil fruits from Makum Coalfield, Tinsukia District, Assam, Curr. Sci. 79 1482-1483
18. Odell ME 1932 The determination of fossil angiosperms by the characteristics of their vegetative organs, Ann. Bot. 46 941-963
19. Prasad M, Chauhan MS & Sah MP 2002 Morphotaxonomic study on fossil leaves of Ficus from Late Holocene sediments of Sirmur District, Himachal Pradesh, India and their significance in assessment of past climate, Phytomorphology 52 45-53
20. Raja Rao CS 1981 Coalfield of north eastern India-1, Bull geol Surv. India 45 1-76
21. Richards P W 1952 The Tropical Rainforest (Cambridge University Press : Cambridge, UK)
22. Roselt G & Schneider W 1969 Cuticulae dispersae ihre Merkmale, Nomenklatur, und klassification, Palaeontologische Abhandlungen 3 1-128
23. Ruffle L & Knappe H 1977 Entwicklungsgeschichtliche und okologische aspecte zur oberkreide - Flora, besonders einiger fagaceae (hamamelididae), Z. Geol. Wiss. Berlin 5 260-303
24. Ruffle L & Knappe H 1988 Ökologische und paläogeographische Bedeutung der Oberkreide flora von Quedlinburg besonders einiger Loranthaceae and Monimiaceae, Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss 13 49-65
25. Srivastava RK 1984 Leaf cuticles of Litsea from the Tertiary lignite of Neyveli, South India, J. Indian bot. Soc. 63 25-28
26. Stace CA 1965 Cuticular studies as an aid to plant taxonomy, Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. 4 1-78
27. Tanai T 1979 Late Cretaceous floras from the Kuji District, Northeastern Honshu, Japan, J. Fac. Sci Hokkaido Univ. Ser. IV 19 75-136
28. Tegelaar EW, Kerp, H, Vischer H, Schenk PA & Leeuw JW de 1991 Bias of the Palaeobotanical records as a consequence of variation in the chemical composition of higher vascular plant cuticles, Paleoboiology 17 133-144
29. Tewari R & Agarwal A 2002 Distinctive stomatal structure from dispersed leaf cuticle of Sindhudurg Formation, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, India, Curr Sci 81 1638-1641
30. Tewari R, Kumar M, Anand Prakash, Shukla M & Srivastava GP 2002 Dispersed angiosperm cuticles from a lignitic clay bed, Sindhudurg Formation, Maharashtra : an interpretation on taxonomy, biodegradation and environment of deposition, Palaeobotanist 50 369-380
31. Upadhyaya N & Verma CL 1986 Palm cuticle from Neyveli lignite, South India, Geophytology 16 142-143
32. Upchurch GR Jr 1995 Dispersed angiosperm cuticles: Their history, preparation and application to the rise of angiosperms in Cretaceous and Paleocene coals, Southern Western interior of North America, Coal Geology 28 161-227
33. Upchurch GR Jr & Dilcher DL 1990 Cenomanian angiosperm leaf megafossils, Dakota Formation, Rose Creek Locality, Jefforson County, South eastern Nebraska, U. S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 1915 1-55