Discovery of the chitinozoans Belonechitina capitata from the Shiala Formation of northeastern Garhwal-Kumaon Tethys Himalaya, Pithoragarh District, Uttrakhand, India

作者：Sinha H N^*; Verniers Jacques

来源：Geoscience Frontiers, 2016, 7(5): 859-864.

DOI：10.1016/j.gsf.2015.07.005

• Chitinozoan (Belonechitina capitata)
• Ordovician
• Northeastern Kumaon
• Tethys Himalaya
• Low palaeolatitudinal Gondwana
• Shiala Formation

Belonechitina capitata, a typically middle to late Ordovician chitinozoan index taxon was for the first time recovered from the northeastern Kumaon region, a part of Garhwal-Kumaon Tethys basin of the Himalaya, India. This species is of great biostratigraphic importance and has already been reported from Avalonia, Baltica and northern Gondwana. The study area was during Ordovician, part of a low-palaeolatitudinal Gondwana region. The vesicles of recovered forms are black and fragmentary. This is principally attributed to intense tectonic activity during the Himalayan orogenic movement which resulted into high thermal alteration. The chitinozoans are found along with melanosclerites.

• 出版日期2016-9