Kharkhari Colliery, Jharia Coalfield (Permian to of India)

Also known as Kharkharee

Where: Jharkhand, India (23.8° N, 86.2° E: paleocoordinates 65.7° S, 56.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Artinskian to Artinskian (290.1 - 272.3 Ma)

• All specimens from the "18th Coal Seam" (Lakhanpal et al. 1976; Chandra & Tewari 1991)

•"Barakar Stage" (Lakhanpal et al. 1976)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. N. Lakhanpal, H. K. Maheshwari, and N. Awasthi. 1976. A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants. 1-318 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224703: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.03.2022

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Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Dadoxylon parenchymosum n. sp., "Dadoxylon barakarense n. sp." = Araucarioxylon barakarense, "Dadoxylon kharkhariense n. sp." = Araucarioxylon kharkhariense
Dadoxylon parenchymosum n. sp. Surange and Maithy 1963
"Dadoxylon barakarense n. sp." = Araucarioxylon barakarense Surange and Saxena 1959
"Dadoxylon kharkhariense n. sp." = Araucarioxylon kharkhariense Maithy 1965
Dadoxylon jhariense
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"Dadoxylon jhariense n. sp." = Polysolenoxylon jhariense
"Dadoxylon jhariense n. sp." = Polysolenoxylon jhariense Surange and Sah 1956
Polysolenoxylon
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"Barakaroxylon kraeuselii n. sp." = Polysolenoxylon krauselii, "Indoxylon canalosum n. gen. n. sp." = Polysolenoxylon canalosum
"Barakaroxylon kraeuselii n. sp." = Polysolenoxylon krauselii Surange and Maithy 1962
"Indoxylon canalosum n. gen. n. sp." = Polysolenoxylon canalosum Surange and Maithy 1963
Prototaxoxylon andrewsii
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"Prototaxoxylon andrewsii n. sp." = Prototaxopitys andrewsii
"Prototaxoxylon andrewsii n. sp." = Prototaxopitys andrewsii Agashe and Chitnis 1971
Barakaroxylon
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Barakaroxylon monocanalosum n. sp. Kulkarni 1971
Dadoxylon gondwanense
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"Dadoxylon gondwanense n. sp." = Parapalaeoxylon gondwanense
"Dadoxylon gondwanense n. sp." = Parapalaeoxylon gondwanense Maithy 1965