Microfossils description

Paper : Palaeontology practical

KalpanaDekaKalita
Foraminifera
Systematic palaeontology

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Description
Distribution and remarks
Age
• Scheme of description
• 1. Symmetry of test
• 2. Shape
• 3. Nature and tightness of coiling (for coiled
form)
• 5. Arrangement of chambers (uncoiled form)
• 6. Shape of chambers
• 7. Septa and septal suture
• 8. Nature of aperture
• 9. Surface ornamentation
• 10. Wall structure
 Lagena aphela
• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845
• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Nodosariidae Ehrenberg, 1838
• Genus: Lagena Walker & Jacob, 1798
• Species: Lagena aphela Tappan,1955

• Description: Test free, unilocular, almost spherical, aperture simple and

produced, wall calcareous.
• Age : Callovian - Oxfordian
 Lenticulina sp
• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845
• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Nodosariidae Ehrenberg, 1838
• Genus: Lenticulina Lamarck, 1804
• Species: Lenticulina sp

• Description: Test free, planispiral, almost round in shape, sutures distinct, wall
calcareous, surface smooth, aperture radiate.

• Age: Middle Jurassic

 Lenticulina sublata
• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845
• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Nodosariidae Ehrenberg, 1838
• Genus: Lenticulina Lamarck, 1804
• Species: Lenticulina sublata (Reuss) Said and Barakat, 1958

• Description: Test free, planispiral, round in shape, last whorl contains about 9
chambers, sutures distinct, wall calcareous, surface smooth, aperture radiate.

• Age: Middle Jurassic

 Globorotalia sp

• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845

• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Nodosariidae Ehrenberg, 1838
• Genus: Globorotalia
• Species: Globorotalia sp
• Description: Test vitreous perforated, panktionic, apex blunt, base flat,
conispiral evolute, chamber subcircular, suture curved thick and rigid;
margin lobed with irregular marginal keel, aperture narrow between
umbilicus and margin.
• Age: Upper Cretaceous
 Triloculina sp
• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845
• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Miliolidae Ehrenberg, 1839
• Genus: Triloculina d’ Orbigny , 1826
• Species: Triloculina sp
• Description: Early chambers quinqueloculine, later chambers
placed on radial planes 120 degree apart, three chambers
taking part in the formation of the outer surface of the test.
Wall calcareous, smooth.
• Age: Upper Palaeocene- Eocene
 Nodosaria hortensis
• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845
• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Nodosariidae Ehrenberg, 1838
• Genus: Nodosaria d’ Orbigny , 1826
• Species: Nodosaria hortensis Terquem, 1866
• Description: Test free, elongate, cylindrical, chambers
uniserially arranged, distinct sutures, depressed, surface has
been ornamented with longitudinal coastae throughout the
length, aperture radiate, wall calcareous.
• Age: Middle Jurassic
 Ammobaculites sp
• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845
• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Lituolacea de Blainville, 1825
• Genus: Ammobaculites Cushman, 1910
• Species: Ammobaculites sp
• Description: Test free, initial chamber with coiling, later on
becoming rectilinear, consisting of three chambers, wall
arenaceous, coarsely agglutinated, aperture terminal, circular.
• Age: Middle Jurassic
 Spirillina tenuissima
• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845
• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Spirillinidae Reuss, 1862
• Genus: Spirillina Ehrenberg, 1843
• Species: Spirillina tenuissima Gumbel, Bielecka, 1960
• Description: Test rounded, planispiral, proloculus oval to
spherical, followed by a second tubular chamber, forming about
seven whorls in a coil. Test centrally concave, wall calcareous,
aperture at the open end of the tube.
• Age: Middle Jurassic
 Alveolona elliptica

• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845

• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Alveolinidae Ehrenberg, 1839
• Genus: Alveolona d’ Orbigny 1828
• Species: Alveolona elliptica
• Description:
Equatorial section: Elliptical in outline with whorls planispirally
coiled, embryonic chamber very small, whorl wall very thick,
Wall calcareous, smooth, imperforate.
Axial section: Elliptical in outline, chambers long, narrow,
tubular extending from pole to pole, whorl wall very thick
• Age: Eocene
 Assilina sp
• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845
• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Nummulitiidae de Blainville, 1825
• Genus: Assilina
• Species: Assilina sp
• Description:
Axial section -- flattened, horizontal, chamber semi elliptical,
wall calcareous.
Equitorial section: Circular in outline, whorl coiled, planispiral,
initial chamber circular and small, adult chamber squarish,
septa thin, straight, wall calcareous, aperture at the back of the
septum.
Age: Eocene
 Globigerina sp
• Phylum: Protozoa von Seibold 1845
• Class: Sarcodina Schmarda, 1871
• Order: Foraminiferida Eichwald, 1830
• Family: Globigeriinidae
• Genus: Globigerina
• Species Globigerina sp
• Description: Planktinic foraminifera, chambers globular in
shape, aperture presentWall calcareous, perforate.
• Age: Recent
CALCAREOUS ALGAE
 Distichoplax biserialis
• Division: Rhodophyta Wettstein, 1901
• Order: Corallinales Silva and Johanson, 1986
• Family: Sporolithaceae Verheij, 1993
• Genus: Distichoplax Pia, 1934
• Species: Distichoplax biserialis Dietrich, 1927
• Description: Thallus very thin. Biserial to multilayered
arrangement of cells in inclined in angle to central axis.

• Age: Upper Palaeocene to Eocene

OSTRACODA
 Neocythere rajathanensis
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Crustacea Pennant, 1977
• Subclass: Ostracoda Latreille, 1806
• Family: Cytherellidae Sars, 1866
• Genus: Neocythere Mertens, 1956
• Species: Neocythere rajathanensis Kulshreshtha et al. 1985
• Description: Carapace subrectangular, anterior and posterior
end equally rounded, right valve larger than the left valve,
dorsal margin straight, wall calcareous, surface smooth without
any ornamentation, muscle scars not seen.
• Age: Middle Jurassic
PALYNOMORPHS
 Lygodiumsporites sp.
• Pteridophytic spore
• Genus: Lygodiumsporites
• Species: Lygodiumsporites sp
• Botanical affinity: Schizaeaceae
• Description: Microspore roundly triangular,
trilete Y – mark distinct.
• Age: Palaeocene - Eocene
 Trilete spore
• Pteridophytic spore
• Genus: Trilete
• Species: Trilete sp
• Description: Triangular, three lete marks
distinct.

• Age: Palaeocene - Eocene

 Monolete spore
• Genus: Monolites Potonie, 1956
• Description: Size oval to oval elongate,
monolete with one lete mark, suture distinct,
thin, extending to more than ¾ the longer
axis, exine thick, ornamentation finely
punctate.

• Age: Eocene
 Polypodisporites sp
• Pteridophytic spore
• Botanical affinity: Polypodidiaceae
• Genus: Polypodisporites Pot. 1934
• Species: Polypodisporites sp
• Description: Spores oval with equal or unequally
broad lateral ends. Monolete distinct, stretching
almost from one end to otherbalong longitudianal
axis. Exine verrucose.
• Age: Palaeocene - Eocene
 Palmaepollenites sp
Angiosperm pollen
Botanical affinity: Palmae
Genus: Palmaepollenites
Species: Palmaepollenites sp
Description: Pollen grain oval; monocolpate
Age: Palaeocene - Eocene
 Tricolpites sp
• Angiosperm pollen
• Botanical affinity: Uncertain
• Genus: Tricolpites
• Species: Tricolpites sp
• Description: Grains spherical to lobate in polar
view, tricolpate with three colpi, colpi long.
• Age: Palaeocene - Eocene
 Spinozonocolpites sp
• Angiosperm pollen
• Botanical affinity: Nipa
• Genus: Spinozonocolpites Muller, 1968
• Species: Spinozonocolpites sp
• Description: Apparently prolate, outline
broadly oval. Ornametation consists of spines
that are more or less pointed.
• Age: Palaeocene - Eocene
Mayeripolis naharkotensis
PALYNODEBRIS
 Wood debris
Palynodebris
Description: Grey, light brown to black particles
with sharp edges and /or cellular structures.
 Leaf cuticle
• Palynodebris
 Distichoplax raoi
• Division: Rhodophyta Wettstein, 1901
• Order: Corallinales Silva and Johanson, 1986
• Family: Sporolithaceae Verheij, 1993
• Genus: Distichoplax Pia, 1934
• Species: Distichoplax raoi Verma, 1960

• Description: Thallus very thin. Biserial to multilayered

arrangement of cells in perpendicular to central axis.

• Age: Upper Palaeocene to Eocene