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Amoora palaeowallichii
Amoora palaeowallichii Guleria, R. Srivast. Himalayan Geol., 21(1-2): 48. Jan 2000
- Name
- Amoora palaeowallichii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Amoora
- Authors (Pub.)
- Guleria J. S.
Srivastava R.
- Publication
- Some fossil leaves from the Kasauli Formation of Himachal Pradesh, North-West India [2000/1]
- Journal
- Himalayan geology
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1-2
- Page number
- 48
- Year
- 2000
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Strat. comment
- Kasauli Formation
- Location
- Adjoining MES Inspection bungalow, Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, North-West India
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- BSIP Museum no. 38041 and its counterpart
- Diagnosis
- Leaf simple, oblong, preserved length and
width 6.8 x 3.7 cm; apex broken, seemingly obtuse; base
missing; margin entire; texture chartaceous; venation
eucamptodromous, mid-rib prominent; secondary veins 11
pairs seen on preserved part, alternate, curving upward
towards margin, branched near margin; intersecondary
veins present; tertiary veins fine, angle of divergence acute,
30°-54°; angle of origin RR, percurrent, oblique in relation
to mid rib, alternate, further details not seen.
