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Calycopteris palaeofloribunda
Calycopteris palaeofloribunda R.C. Mehrotra Palaeobotanist, 49(2): 232. Aug 2000
- Name
- Calycopteris palaeofloribunda
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Calycopteris
- Authors (Pub.)
- Mehrotra R. C.
- Publication
- Study of plant megafossils from the Tura Formation of Nangwalbibra, Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India [2000/8]
- Journal
- Palaeobotanist
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 232
- Year
- 2000
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Ypresian
- Strat. comment
- Tura Formation
- Location
- Nangwalbibra near Williamnagar, East Garo Hills District, Meghalaya, India
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- BSIP 38092
- Diagnosis
- Leaf symmetrical, narrow, elliptic: base symmetrical, normal acute; margin entire; texture chartaceous: attachment with petiole normal; venation brochidodromous to eucamptodromous: primary vein moderate, straight; secondary veins alternate, angle of divergence narrow to moderately acute,
moderately thick, uniformly curved and running parallel to the margin, some of them forming loops with superadjacent secondaries; intersecondaries present; tertiary veins percurrent, fine, close.
