Lycopersicocarpon harrisii

Name

Lycopersicocarpon harrisii

Rank

Species

Original spelling

harisii

Generic Name

[Genus] Lycopersicocarpon

Authors (Pub.)

Deshmukh R. N. Kokate P. S.  

Publication

Lycopersicocarpon harisii gen. et sp. nov. a petrified dicotyledonous berry fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohagaonkalan, M.P. India [2018/12]

Journal

International Journal of Science and Research

Volume

7

Issue

12

Page number

108

Year

2018

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 /RND /DICOT- FRUIT-II

Num

pl. figs. 1-5; text-figs. 1-4

Pub.

Lycopersicocarpon harisii gen. et sp. nov. a petrified dicotyledonous berry fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohagaonkalan, M.P. India [2018/12]

Diagnosis

Fruit berry, dicotyledonous, sphericalin shape, bilocular with well-preserved locules. Pericarp differentiated into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Epicarp thick-walled parenchymatous, mesocarp made fleshy made up of thick-walled parenchymatous, and endocarp is rectangular, slightly thin walled layered. Locules are separated by vertical septa. Size 50.4 µm long, 28 µm broad, single locule horizontal in position, size vary from each other. Pericarp 165µm thick shows epicarp 13.3µm-9.99 µm thick, each cell. Measures 0.56 µm in thickness, mesocarp 1.32 µm thick in middle part and at basal part 66um thick, and each cell of mesocarp measures0.61 µm. Endocarp measure about 1.69um is long and 132-2.64 µmin broad. Each cell of endocarp measures about 99um in thick. Embryo is not well preserved. Two locule are separated from each other by vertical septum, it varies in size but same in shape. Its measured 49.5µm-2.66µm long and 132µm-99µm broad.