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Chrysophyllum tertiarum
Chrysophyllum tertiarum R.C. Mehrotra Palaeobotanist, 49(2): 234. Aug 2000
- Name
- Chrysophyllum tertiarum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Chrysophyllum
- 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
- 234
- 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 38094
- Diagnosis
- Leaf symmetrical, elliptic; base rounded; margin entire; texture chartaceous; attachment with petiole normal to inflated; venation eucamptodromous; primary vein stout, straight; secondary veins alternate, angle of divergence moderately acute to wide acute, upper pairs more acute than lower, moderately thick, usually uniformly curved but showing abrupt curving near the margin; intersecondary veins present; tertiary veins fine, percurrent.
