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Record of the stromatolite Plicatina from India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. R. Bhattacharya
A. R. Bhattacharya
Affiliation:
Geology Department, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India
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Abstract

Summary. A rare and typically Lower Riphean stromatolite Plicatina is reported from the Indian subcontinent for the first time. Elsewhere, its only well-known report is from the Lower Riphean rocks of Morocco. The present form has been identified as Plicatina misrai, a new form-species. It occurs in the thick calcareous Kapkot Formation, which is a practically unfossiliferous and widespread rock unit of the Lesser Himalaya. The present report has wider implications in many aspects, especially in raising the level of confidence in assigning a definite age to the rock unit in which it occurs.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 120 , Issue 6 , December 1983 , pp. 543 - 548
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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