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Drupaceocarpon sheikhii
Drupaceocarpon sheikhii Khursel Int. J. Advance Appl. Res., [Spec. Issue], 3(8): 161. Nov - Dec 2022
- Name
- Drupaceocarpon sheikhii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Drupaceocarpon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Khursel A. S.
- Publication
- A new petrified trilocular drupaceous fruit Drupaceocarpon sheikhii gen. et sp. nov. from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan, M.P., India [2022/11-12]
- Journal
- International Journal of Advance and Applied Research
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 8
- Page number
- 161
- Year
- 2022
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Stratigraphy
- Maastrichtian
- Strat. comment
- Deccan Intertrappean
- Location
- Mohgaonkalan, Kirnapur Tehsil, Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh State, India
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Institute of Science, Department of Botany, Nagpur, India
- Repository Number
- APS. / Fruit -3
- Diagnosis
- Fruit is oval to elliptical in shape and unstalked. It is trilocular with two fertile locules and one sterile chamber. All the three chambers are separated by means of three septa. The whole fruit measures 4250µm long and 2000µm in broad. Fruit wall or pericarp is thick multilayered and differentiated into epicarp, mesocarp & hard endocarp.it measures 150µm in thickness. All the three locules are more or less similar in shape and size, it is oval to elliptical in shape and approximately measures 1800µm long & 1950µm broad. Fertile locule incorporates single prominent seed and sterile locule provide buoyancy to the fruit. Seed is oval to elliptical in shape and measures 1450µm long and 1366µm broad. Seed coat is unitegmic in nature and well developed dicot embryo is present inside the seed.
