A5103935258- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Plant and animal studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
Sidho Kanho Birsa University
2020-2024
Ten palm leaf impressions are documented from the latest Maastrichtian (late Cretaceous) to early Danian (earliest Paleocene) sediments (K-Pg, c. 66-64 Ma) of Mandla Lobe Deccan Inter-trappean Beds, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The palmate shape along with a definite well-preserved costa support their placement in subfamily Coryphoideae family Arecaceae. We place all recovered specimens fossil genus Sabalites, report seven species coryphoid palms and describe two new namely, Sabalities...
Premise of research. Burseraceae is represented by a large number fossils from the Cenozoic sedimentary succession and has disjunct distribution today in southern part North America, Africa, Europe, Asia. However, family poor fossil record deep time, making hypotheses concerning its origin dispersal difficult to evaluate. Here, we report occurrence reproductive organs (fruit flower) attributable modern probable latest Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) earliest Danian (early Paleocene)...
Abstract Even though presently indigenous to eastern Himalaya in India, no Engelhardioideae have been reported from the Cenozoic sediments of India till date. Here, we report first Indian occurrence a characteristic engelhardioid winged samaroid fruit having tri‐lobed wing (oblong‐ovate median lobe and two lateral lobes) globose nut latest Neogene (Pliocene: Rajdanda Formation) Chotanagpur Plateau, India. This is fossil evidence relict family Juglandaceae Cenozoic. We determine its taxonomic...
Cryosophileae, one of eight tribes within the palm subfamily Coryphoideae, is now restricted to tropical-subtropical areas Central America with a few megafossil records in Europe and America. However, no tribe has been reported from Asia. Here, we describe Cryosophiloxylon indicum Kumar et Khan sp. nov. assigned Cryosophileae based on permineralized stem latest Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) earliest Danian (early Paleocene) sediments (c. 63–65 Ma old) Deccan Intertrappean Beds Madhya...
Two well-preserved petrified palm stems from the latest Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) to earliest Danian (Early Paleocene) sediments of Deccan Intertrappean Beds Madhya Pradesh, Central India are described. Their significant anatomical characteristics include a Calamus-type general stem pattern, presence fibrovascular bundles (fvbs) with two wide metaxylem vessel elements (230 μm–250 μm) and one phloem strand, uniform density fvbs, lack continuity between protoxylem elements, an absence...