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Aizoceocarpon tetragonii
Aizoceocarpon tetragonii Borkar, Nagrale, Ramteke, Korpenwar Int. J. Res. Biosci. Agric. Techn., 5(Special issue 2): 1048. Jul 2017
- Name
- Aizoceocarpon tetragonii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Aizoceocarpon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Borkar S.
Nagrale V. D.
Ramteke D. D.
Korpenwar A. N.
- Publication
- Report of a new petrified winged fruit Aizoceocarpon tetragonii gen. et sp. nov. from the Late Cretaceous sedimentary sequences of central India [2017/7]
- Journal
- International Journal of Researches in Biosciences, Agriculture & Technology
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- Special issue 2
- Page number
- 1048
- Year
- 2017
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Stratigraphy
- Maastrichtian
- Strat. comment
- Deccan Intertrappean
- Location
- Mohgaokalanand, Singpur Madhya Pradesh; Maraipatan Maharashtra, India
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Institute of Science, Department of Botany, Nagpur, India
- Repository Number
- VDN / Angio. Fruit
- Diagnosis
- Fruit is a dicotyledonous, unilocular, single seeded, and indehiscent samara fruit measures 1.7 × 3 mm broad and 1.8 × 2.7 mm long. Fruit wall 130–150 µm thick, differentiated into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Epicarp 30-40 thick, one layered of thin walled parenchymatous cells; mesocarp 55-70 µm thick sclerenchymatous; endocarp 50–60 µm thick. Seed is oval to obovate, measures 0.3 × 0.5 mm in diameter. Seed coat is unitegmic, thin, parenchymatous measures 40-50 µm in thickness. Nucellus present. Embryo with thin walled cell. Wings developed from the fruit wall tends to have a simpler marginal vein pattern.
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