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Man-environment interaction and its impact since ca. 3600 years BP in West Bengal, India: A multiproxy approach

科学通报 2013年第S1期58卷 9-28页

作者： GHOSH Ruby BERA Subir BANERJEE Manju Birbal Sahni Institute of palaeobotany Centre of Advanced Study Palaeobotany-Palynology LaboratoryDepartment of BotanyUniversity of Calcutta

Climatic variability during the Holocene and corresponding anthropogenic response have gained considerable attention in different parts of India, but surprisingly very little is known on climate-human interrelationship from eastern India especially from the Gangetic plains of West Bengal. As climate has played significant role behind the collapse of many of the ancient human civilizations hence, to explore the reason behind the abandonment of any archaeological site, understanding of the climate of the contemporaneous past is a prerequisite. Agricultural development, subsistence strategies and dynamic behavior of climate in the Lower Gangetic plains of West Bengal since ca. 3600 cal a BP(Chalcolithic period) and post-Chalcolithic period(ca. 2350–2120 cal a BP to recent) were explored using multiproxy approach including plant-animal macro remains, wood charcoals and pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from an archaeological site at Pakhanna, district Bankura in West Bengal, India. Evidences from palynological and phytolith data suggest that a warm-moist tropical climate during ca. 3600 cal a BP supported the spread of a village farming community in this part of lower Gangetic plains of West Bengal who practiced double-cropping as evidenced by the recovery of cereals(rice) and pulses(black gram) from the cultural deposits of Chalcolithic and Early Historic periods. In addition, a plenty of animal remains(opercula of carp fishes, fragments of plastron of Indian Soft Shelled Turtle, Indian Flap Shelled Turtle, ramus of mandible with teeth of Indian Boar) from similar cultural deposits indicate their probable inclusion in dietary list. The climate started changing during the onset of Early Historic period ca. 2350 cal a BP as revealed by pollen and phytolith proxies and became warmer and drier than that in earlier phase which is continuing till recent. The observations of palynological and phytolith data were also corroborated by the results of correspondence analysis(CA)

关键词： Archaeobiology dynamic environment human settlement Late Quaternary West Bengal India

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Holocene Floral and Faunal Remains Revealed Concealed Neotectonic Disturbance (Saria Tal, Kumaun Himalaya, India)

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Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition) 2010年第1期84卷 69-76页

作者： Asha GUPTA Birbal Sahni Institute of palaeobotany

Palynological and paleontological investigations supported by the radiocarbon dates of the lacustrine sediments of two profiles from the temperate lake Saria Tal, in Naini Tal District, Kumaun Himalaya, have revealed the presence of a concealed fold at the region. The profile from bore cores represents the upper part of the Late Holocene and the profile from exposed sections from the Middle Holocene to the over middle part of the Late Holocene. The data generated from different investigations have uniformly indicated that the former profile represents normal superposition, while the latter represents the reverse order. The contemporary pollen as well as molluscan zones of both profiles are situated at different elevations but consist of similar bioremains - indicating continuation of the same strata in two profiles. The presence of reverse order of superposition, continuation of the same strata in two profiles at different elevations, and the orientation of biozones, have indicated that the revealed folding is of syncline type. The present study has also given an idea about the origin of this lake.

关键词： concealed fold Holocene bio-remains Saria Tal Kumaun Himalaya

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Cenozoic flora of western India and its significance in palaeoclimatic and palaeophytogeographic interpretation

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科学通报 2013年第S1期58卷 134-141页

作者： SHUKLA Anumeha MEHROTRA Rakesh Chandra Birbal Sahni Institute of palaeobotany

The Cenozoic flora of western India(Rajasthan and Gujarat) is adversely affected by the tectonic activity such as collision of the Indian subcontinent with the Eurasian plate which is responsible for the Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau uplift. This collision and its resultants affected the ubiquitous tropical lowland vegetation of the Indian subcontinent(including western India) and are responsible for different types of topographic regions as seen today in the Indian subcontinent. The region is important as it has witnessed a drastic change in climate of the region since the Cenozoic time and also provided opportunities to the western and eastern flora to intermingle. The main basins in western India comprising Cenozoic sequences are: Bikaner-Nagaur, Jaisalmer and Barmer in Rajasthan and Kachchh, Mainland and Saurashtra in Gujarat. These basins are very rich in lignite which is the main source of electric power generation in western India. This lignite is mainly of Eocene in age. The Cenozoic flora of western India was almost tropical growing in well drained areas as compared to arid to sub-humid regions with xeric vegetation today. The reported fossils are represented by leaves, woods, fruits and seeds. The leaves are abundant in the Palaeogene as compared to the Neogene. The Neogene period can be marked by the abundant legumes and dipterocarpaceous remains. The important families viz., Anacardiaceae, Annonaceae, Arecaceae, Calophyllaceae, Clusiaceae, Combretaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Flacourtiaceae, Icacinaceae, Lauraceae, Lythraceae, Meliaceae, Moraceae, Myrtaceae, Pandanaceae and Sonneratiaceae have been reported from the Palaeogene sediments, whereas Anacardiaceae, Araucariaceae, Arecaceae, Combretaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Fabaceae, Lauraceae, Lecythidaceae, Lythraceae, Malvaceae, Meliaceae, Moraceae, Podocarpaceae, Rhamnaceae, Rhizophoraceae, Rutaceae, Sapindaceae and Sonneratiaceae are known from the Neogene sediments. All the recovered elements strongly indicate th

关键词： megafossil Rajasthan Gujarat palaeoclimate phytogeography

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Low latitude floral assemblage from the Late Oligocene sediments of Assam and its palaeoclimatic and palaeogeographic significance

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科学通报 2013年第S1期58卷 156-161页

作者： SRIVASTAVA Gaurav MEHROTRA Rakesh Chandra Birbal Sahni Institute of palaeobotany

There are many outcrops of the Tertiary sediments in northeast India and a large number of plant megafossils have been described from there. Among all, the Late Oligocene sedimentary basin of Makum Coalfield is very important because there is no other exposure having such a rich palaeofloral assemblage not only from northeast India but also from the whole country. The assemblage is also important to confirm whether the suturing between the Indian and Eurasian plates was complete to facilitate plant migration or not. All the reported plant fossils clearly indicate the prevalence of tropical climate in the region during the deposition of the sediments. As the majority of taxa occur in tropical evergreen to moist deciduous and littoral and swampy forest, a warm and humid climate may be envisaged in Upper Assam during the Late Oligocene. The abundance of palms and pantropical megathermal plant families in the Makum Coalfield indicate that the cold month mean temperature(CMMT) was not less than 18°C. The quantitative palaeoclimate reconstruction indicates a monsoonal climate during the period with the same intensity as that of the modern day. The absence of Southeast Eurasian elements in the fossil assemblage provides clear evidence that suturing between the Indian and Asian plates was not complete till the Late Oligocene. Several modern analogues of the fossil taxa are now endemic to the Western Ghats which lies in the same palaeolatitude.

关键词： northeast India Makum Coalfield megafossil monsoon

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Facies analysis and paleoenvironmental interpretation of Piacenzian carbonate deposits from the Guitar Formation of Car Nicobar Island,India

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Geoscience Frontiers 2013年第6期4卷 755-764页

作者： Amit K.Ghosh Suman Sarkar Birbal Sahni Institute of palaeobotany 53 University RoadLucknow 226 007India

Facies characterization of Piacenzian （late Pliocene） carbonate sediments of the Guitar Formation in Car Nicobar Island,India and the subsequent integration of paleoecological data have been applied to interpret the paleoenvironment of the coralline algal-reef ***-section analysis reveals that Amphiroa,Corallina and Jania are the dominant geniculate corallines,while Lithothamnion,Mesophyllum,Phymatolithon,Lithophyllum,Spongites and Lithoporella are the major non-geniculate corallines contributing to the sedimentary *** small and larger benthic foraminifera also dominate the biogenic ***,barnacle shells,echinoid spines,fragments of bryozoans,mollusks and ostracodes are the subordinate *** dominate the studied facies while packstones and boundstones （with wackestone elements） are the sub lithofacies showing a fair *** carbonate facies presenting a complete reef complex have been distinguished that were deposited in shallow intertidal,back-reef shelf/lagoon,reef and deeper fore-reef shelf *** of coralline algal and benthic foraminiferal assemblages,taphonomic signatures of abrasion and fragmentation,grain size,angularity and encrustation indicate a shallow to relatively deeper bathymetric horizon of approximately 10-60 m that corresponds to a regime of high to moderate hydrodynamic conditions.

关键词： Facies analysis Coralline algae Benthic foraminifera Piacenzian Guitar Formation Car Nicobar

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Palynofloral changes in the Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic of the Deocha-Pachami area, Birbhum Coalfield, West Bengal, India

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Science China Earth Sciences 2009年第12期52卷 1932-1952页

作者： VIJAYA Birbal Sahni Institute of palaeobotany 53 University Road Lucknow 226007 India

The study of Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic palynomorphs in three boreholes from the Deocha-Pachami area, Birbhum Coalfield, West Bengal, India, has allowed dating of the Talchir, Barakar, Dubrajpur, and Rajmahal formations, and revealed many hiatuses. The lowermost unit, the Talchir Formation, yielded earliest Permian palynomorphs. The Barakar Formation, which includes coal-bearing strata, was previously dated as Early Permian. However, data presented herein indicate an Early Permian to earliest Triassic age for this unit,containing actually the Karharbari, Barakar s.s., Kulti, and Ranigang formations as well as the basal part of the Panchet Formation. The overlying Dubrajpur Formation is Jurassic (Callovian to Tithonian), with an unconformity at its base. The uppermost Dubrajpur Formation is Tithonian-Berriasian. The palynomorphs from the intertrappeans within the Rajmahal Formation suggest an Early Cretaceous age. The revised ages of the Barakar and Dubrajpur formations are of major regional significance. The distribution patterns of spore-pollen may provide a broad spectrum of paleoclimate during Permian, Late Jurassic, and Early Cretaceous times, as there is no record of marine signatures in the study area.

关键词： Talchir to Rajmahal formations Upper Paleozoic Mesozoic spores and pollen biostratigraphy India

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Endemic fossil seed plants from China and a reassessment of coniferophyte phylogeny

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Progress in Natural Science:Materials International 1999年第10期9卷 48-55页

作者： Jason HILTON,王士俊,陈之端,田宝霖 Department of palaeobotany Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100093 China Department of palaeobotany Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100093 China laboratory of Systematics and Evolution Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100093 China China University of Mining and Technology ( Beijing) Beijing 100083 China

Recent palaeobotanical studies have provided new and important evidence on Chinese fossil plants. The majority of these fossils are distinct from fossil floras known from other geographical regions. However, remarkably few of these fossil plants have been successfully incorporated into cladistic analyses, to assess their importance on evolutionary relationships among major plant groups. For the first time our investigation incorporates three endemic Chinese fossil plant species into a cladistic analysis of the seed plants. These plants have been documented and reconstructed in detailed investigations of Palaeozoic coal balls from the Taiyuan Formation and are named Shanxioxylon sinensis , Shanx-ioxylon taiyuanensis and Pennsylvanioxylon tianii respectively. Previous investigations indicate that these plants belong to the now extinct Cordaitalean seed plants although they share many features with certain fossil conifers. As such, they are likely to be of significance to the ongoing and currently unresolv

关键词： phytogeny evolution coniferophyte Coniferales Cordaitales

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Further contribution to the Neogene petrified wood forest of Mizoram, India

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科学通报 2013年第S1期58卷 104-110页

作者： MEHROTRA Rakesh Chandra TIWARI R P SRIVASTAVA Gaurav SHUKLA Anumeha Birbal Sahni Institute of palaeobotany Department of Geology Mizoram University

Mizoram, a state situated in the northeast corner of India, is very rich in fossil woods belonging to the Tipam Group(Late Miocene-Early Pliocene in age). Four new fossil woods, namely Swintonioxylon hailakandiense Prakash & Tripathi, Bombacacioxylon tertiarum Mehrotra et al., gen. et sp. nov., Dipterocarpoxylon jammuense Guleria et al. and Bischofia palaeojavanica Awasthi are described from there. They resemble the modern taxa, namely Swintonia Griff.(Anacardiaceae), Dipterocarpus C.F. Gaertn.(Dipterocarpaceae), Bischofia Blume(Euphorbiaceae) and the taxa of the family Bombacaceae. The distribution of the modern equivalents of the present and previously described taxa indicates the existence of warm and humid climate in Mizoram during the depositional time.

关键词： fossil wood Tipam Group angiosperms northeast India palaeoclimate

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A Review on the Taxonomic,Evolutionary and Phytogeographic Studies of the Lotus Plant(Nelumbonaceae:Nelumbo)

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Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition) 2014年第4期88卷 1252-1261页

作者： LI Ya Popova SVETLANA YAO Jianxin LI Chengsen Institute of Geology Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences Key laboratory of Stratigraphy and Paleontology Ministry of Land and Resources of the People's Republic of China State Key laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany Institute of BotanyChinese Academy of Sciences laboratory of palaeobotany Komarov Botanical InstituteRussian Academy of Sciences

Nelumbo Adans. （Nelumbonaceae） is an important member of the early-diverging eudicots. It contains two extant species： N. nucifera Gaertn. （the Sacred lotus）, distributed in Asia and Australia and N. lutea Willd. （the American lotus）, occurring in North America. This paper reviews the taxonomic, evolutionary and phytogeographic studies of the genus Nelumbo, and also raises scientific questions about it in further paleobotanic research. There are about 30 fossil species of Nelumbo established since the Early Cretaceous. Based on fossil studies, the ancestors of the extant N. nucifera and N. lutea are respectively considered to be N. protospeciosa from the Eocene to Miocene of Eurasia, and N. protolutea from the Eocene of North American. However, molecular systematic studies indicate that N. nucifera and N. lutea are probably split from a common ancestor during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene, or even the Pleistocene, rather than separate relicts from extinct species on different continents. The characters of lotus stomatal development, seedling morphology as well as its flowering, pollination and fertilization in air reveal that it evolves from the land plants. Fossil data of Nelumbo indicates that the genus first occurs in mid-latitude area of Laurasia in the Early Cretaceous, then becomes widespread in North America and Eurasia and expands into Africa and South America during the Late Cretaceous; the genus probably colonizes the Indian Subcontinent from Asia during the Early Eocene after the collision of India and the Asian plates; the genus becomes extinct in Europe, but survives in Asia and North America during the Quaternary Ice Age, and later forms the present East Asia and North Australia-North America disjunctive distribution.

关键词： taxonomy evolution phytogeography Nelumbo Nelumbonaceae

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Diversity of Middle Eocene Coralline Red Algae from the Prang Limestone(Shella Formation) of Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, NE Himalaya, India with special emphasis on palaeoenvironment

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科学通报 2013年第S1期58卷 118-125页

作者： GHOSH Amit Kumar SARMA Ajanta SARKAR Suman Birbal Sahni Institute of palaeobotany Department of Geology GC College

Palaeocene-Eocene carbonates of shallow marine sequence belonging to Shella Formation of Jaintia Group are well developed in the south of the Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya and represent an excellent outcrop of shelf sediments in North Eastern Himalaya, India. These outcrops are exposed along the southern fringe of Shillong Plateau. The Prang Limestone is the uppermost lithostratigraphic unit of the Shella Formation within the Jaintia Group. It is overlain by sand-shale alternation of the Kopili Formation and underlain by the Narpuh Sandstone. A rich assemblage of larger foraminifera including Nummulites, Discocyclina etc. has been recorded earlier from the Prang Limestone and based on the foraminiferal assemblage, a Middle Eocene to Early Late Eocene age has been assigned to the Prang Limestone. Thin section analysis of the Prang Limestone revealed the abundance of well preserved coralline red algae along with other well preserved and significant biogenic elements. Morpho-taxonomical study reveals that the algal flora is represented by seven species belonging to the families Hapalidiaceae(Subfamily: Melobesioideae), Corallinaceae(Subfamily: Mastophoroideae) and Sporolithaceae. The dominance of melobesioid and mastophoroid forms is the characteristic feature of this algal assemblage. Coralline algae occur mostly in encrusting growth form with orbitoid foraminifera and occasionally the coralline algae form rhodoliths. On this basis of algal forms it can be inferred that they thrived in a shallow, warm, shelf environment of normal salinity.

关键词： diversity Coralline algae taxonomy Middle Eocene Shella Formation Meghalaya NE Himalaya India

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