Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1134/s0869593824020047
Abstract
The results of the study obtained for spores and pollen from the subfossil spectra of samples from the Bykovsky Peninsula (northern Yakutia) are presented in order to compare them with the current vegetation composition, to consider the major cryogenic disturbances of palynological remains, and to analyze their cryogenic destruction processes. The abundant alien pollen of Betula sect. Nanae and Alnus in the spectra is due to open landscapes, relatively low pollen productivity, and the transition of herbs and shrubs prevailing in the local phytocenoses to a vegetative propagation in severe climatic conditions. The selective role of cryogenesis in the spore–pollen spectra formation is related to repeated sediment thawing and freezing cycles, resulting in physical damage (ruptures and cracks) in palynological remains. The results of research contribute to the study of the methodological aspects of palynotaphonomy in cryolithic zone sediments. They can be used to reconstruct the Neopleistocene landscapes and vegetation and to study cryopreservation of fossil living organisms and their diversity in the permafrost areas.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1134/s0869593824020072
Abstract
For more than half a century, the question remained unresolved why the closely located sequences of fluvial sands overlying Middle Pleistocene diamicton in the lower reaches of the Ob River near the village of Khashgort contain micromammal faunas of different evolutionary levels: Late Quaternary (430 km from the Ob River mouth) and Middle Quaternary (442 (440) km from the Ob River mouth). This was in contradiction with generally accepted ideas, according to which the absence of Middle Quaternary alluvium was assumed in this area and called into question either geological or paleontological interpretations of the Pleistocene history of north of Western Siberia. This paper presents the results of correlating two geological sections based on both geological and paleontological methods and suggests an updated biostratigraphic interpretation of the materials relevant to the Karginian and Tazovian horizons of Western Siberia collected in the 1980s and 2016–2022. It was established that the Late Quaternary assemblage of micromammals from the sections at kilometer 430 of the Ob River is confined to alluvium of the second terrace above the river floodplain, while the Middle Quaternary assemblage at kilometer 442 (the Khashgort locality, kilometer 440 of the Bolshaya Ob River) is associated with fluvioglacial sands showing signs of close redeposition of small mammal remains in the megaclasts contained in Middle Quaternary Khashgort boulder-bearing sandy aleuropelites. Thus, the study makes it possible to harmonize the geological and paleontological data that were in conflict for more than half a century.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1134/s0869593824010027
Shreerup Goswami, Geetika Tripathy, Kamal Jeet Singh
Abstract
The Himgir sub-basin is the southwestern part of the Ib River Basin, Odisha, India. A Lower Gondwana fossil horizon was explored along the road section near Himgir Village, Sundargarh District, Odisha and plant megafossils (1002 specimens) comprising both pteridophytes and gymnosperms, four plant groups, ten genera and fifty-five species were reported. Pteridophytes (Equisetales, Sphenophyllales and Filicales) are represented by Schizoneura gondwanensis Feistmantel, 1876, equisetaceous stems, Trizygia speciosa Royle, 1839 and Neomariopteris talchirensis Maithy, 1974. Gymnosperms are represented by one plant group namely Glossopteridales (46 species Glossopteris) along with stem casts, fructifications and scale leaves. The occurrence of Late Permian floras, the lack of distinctive Dicroidium flora of the Triassic period in this assemblage, and the red bed facies (ferruginous red sandstone and ferruginous red shale) of the investigated locality reveal that the exposure belongs to Lower Kamthi Formation of Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian age. The macrofloral assemblage demonstrates a warm-humid climate with flashing rainfall and moderate light intensity. Vegetation of the studied sub-basin has also been studied to portray the palaeobiodiversity of the area.
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