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Chuaria circularis from the early Mesoproterozoic Suket Shale, Vindhyan Supergroup, India: Insights from light and electron microscopy and pyrolysis-gas chromatography

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Title Chuaria circularis from the early Mesoproterozoic Suket Shale, Vindhyan Supergroup, India: Insights from light and electron microscopy and pyrolysis-gas chromatography
 
Creator DUTTA, S
STEINER, M
BANERJEE, S
ERDTMANN, BD
JEEVANKUMAR, S
MANN, U
 
Subject west-africa
neoproterozoic acritarchs
carbonaceous megafossils
tawuia assemblage
yanshan range
burkina-faso
north china
basin
australia
evolution
chuaria circularis
mesoproterozoic
vindhyan supergroup
pyrolysis-gas chromatography
 
Description Chuaria circularis (Walcott 1899) from the Suket Shale of the Vindhyan Supergroup (central India) has been reinvestigated for its morphology and chemical composition using biostatistics, electron microscopy and pyrolysis-gas chromatography. Morphology and microscopic investigations provide little clues on the specific biological affinity of Chuaria as numerous preservational artifacts seem to be incorporated. On the contrary, the predominance of n-aliphatic pyrolysates of presently studied Chuaria from India rather supports an algal affinity. Moreover, the reflectance of C. circularis can be used to obtain a comparative maturity parameter of the Precambrian sediments. The review of the age and geographical distribution of C. circularis constrains that this species cannot be considered as an index fossil for the Proterozoic time.
 
Publisher INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES
 
Date 2011-08-01T21:28:21Z
2011-12-26T12:53:30Z
2011-12-27T05:39:43Z
2011-08-01T21:28:21Z
2011-12-26T12:53:30Z
2011-12-27T05:39:43Z
2006
 
Type Article
 
Identifier JOURNAL OF EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE, 115(1), 99-112
0253-4126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02703028
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/8549
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/8549
 
Language en