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Diospyros palaeoargentea
Diospyros palaeoargentea Mah. Prasad, Kannaujia, Alok, S.K. Singh Palaeobotanist, 64(1–2): 58. 31 Dec 2015
- Name
- Diospyros palaeoargentea
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Diospyros
- Authors (Pub.)
- Prasad M.
Kannaujia A. K.
Alok
Singh S. K.
- Publication
- Plant megaflora from the Siwalik (Upper Miocene) of Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India and its palaeoclimatic and phytogeographic significance [2015/12]
- Journal
- Palaeobotanist
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 1–2
- Page number
- 58
- Year
- 2015
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Tortonian
- Strat. comment
- Geabdat Sandstone Formation (Middle Siwalik); Upper Miocene (Sarmatian to Pontian)
- Location
- Ghish River Section, Oodlabari area, Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- 40378
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- 40379
- Diagnosis
- Leaf simple, symmetrical, large, narrow oblanceolate; preserved size 16.2 x 4.6 cm and 15.1 x 4.1 cm; apex and base slightly broken; margin entire; texture coriaceous; venation pinnate; eucamptodromous; primary vein single, prominent, almost straight, stout; secondary veins more than 22 pairs visible, 0.5 to 1.2 cm apart, usually alternate to opposite, unbranched, angle of divergence (about 45°–60º), narrow acute to moderate acute, uniformly curved up and joined to their superadjacent secondaries; intersecondary veins present, simple, frequent, 3–4 intersecondaries veins of almost same thickness between two secondaries; tertiary veins fine, poorly preserved with angle of origin usually RR, percurrent, almost straight to sometimes curved, branched, oblique in relation to midvein, predominantly alternate and close.
