Coffeocarpon deccani

Name

Coffeocarpon deccani

Rank

Species

Original spelling

deccanii

Generic Name

[Genus] Coffeocarpon

Authors (Pub.)

Dighe S. W. Kokate P. S.  

Publication

Coffeocarpon deccanii gen. et sp. nov. a new petrified dicotyledonous berry fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Central India [2016/10]

Journal

International Journal of Scientific Research

Volume

5

Issue

10

Page number

276

Year

2016

Fossil Status

fruits

Stratigraphy

Maastrichtian

Strat. comment

Deccan Intertrappean

Location

Mohgaonkalan, Dist. Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh state, India

Paleoregion

Gondwana (Indostan)

Data for Holotypus

Repository

Department of Botany, Shri. Shivaji College, Akola, India

Repository Number

MOH / SWD/ DICOT/ FRUIT – I

Num

pl. 1-10; text-figs. 1-10

Pub.

Coffeocarpon deccanii gen. et sp. nov. a new petrified dicotyledonous berry fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Central India [2016/10]

Diagnosis

Fossil berry fruit shperical in shape, globose and fleshy in nature, measures 1.56 mm in diameter, fruit broadly divided into fruit wall that pericarp (Exocarp, Mesocarp and Endocarp) and seeds. Pericarp is about 8 µ in thickness and consist of parenchymatous cells and differentiated into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Thin walled rectangular to oval shaped epicarp measures about 7.98 µ x 53.2 µ. Endopermous seed measures in thickness 127.68 µ. Very thin walled rectangular parenchymatous cells of seed coat or spermoderm measures in thickness 0.93 µ x 0.13 µ.