On some fossil plants from Karkati, Kamtadand and Parsora, in the South Rewa Gondwana Basin, Central India

Abstract

The fossil plants collected by the author in the year 1944 from three different localities in the South Rewa Gondwana basin, Central India, are described in this paper. 1. Karkati (23°.22': 81°.6') has yielded pure Glossopteris flora consisting of three species of Glossopteris -G. indica, G. Browniana, G. angustifolia -, one species each of Sphenopteris and Dictyopteridium, an equisetaceous stem and a fossil of uncertain affinity. 2. At Kamtadand (23°.25': 81°.6') were found one species each of Glossopteris, Vertebraria, Dicroidium and an equisetaceous stem. This interesting mixture of Glossopteris with Dicroidium suggests a somewhat younger age than that of Karkati flora. Fox (1931) has stated that there is no admixture of the two floras Glossopteris and Thinnfeldia (Dicroidium) at any place. But this mixed flora from Kamtadand shows that Fox's view is not correct. 3. Parsora (23°.26": 80°.5'.30"). Here a few very poorly preserved leaves, doubtfully referred to Glossopteris, have been found.