Logo

Synopsis The Geological Survey of India has a continuing deep involvement in Palaeontological Studies in India. Renowned Palaeontologists like Stoliczka, Feistmantel, Lyddekar, Vredenburg, Steward, Sahni, Cox, Sipath, reed and others have made significant contributions to enrich literature on Stratigraphy and Palaeontology. These pioneering efforts have resulted in a vast collection of fossils now preserved in the Geological Survey of India. The first Palaeontological Index was compiled by T.H.D. La Touche as part of Bibliography of Indian Geology in 1926. The Geological Survey has brought out subsequently revised and enlarged palaeontological index for various fossil groups in eight volumes since 1968. The present bibliography, Part-IX of the series, is devoted to Gondwana Megaplants and includes all genera and species reported in publications up to 1990. It encompasses the result of researches by Geological Survey of India, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow and many other centres in the country. Palaeobotany and the Gondwana Megaplants are under a special focus among geoscientists in India during the current year, as 1991-92 is being celebrated as the centenary year of the birth of Prof. Birbal Sahni, the acknowledged pioneer of Palaeobotany in India. Geological Survey of India has decided to bring out the bibliography on Megaplants of Gondwana era as a tribute to this great Palaeobotanist. It is hoped that this bibliography on Gondwana Megaplants, compiled by Sarva Shri S.C. Shah and P.R. Bandyopadhyay, will be of significant help to research workers in India and abroad and would contribute to the ideals for which Prof. Birbal Sahni devoted his gloriously successful scientific life.