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Vatica prenitida
Vatica prenitida Mah. Prasad, Kannaujia, Alok, S.K. Singh Palaeobotanist, 64(1–2): 28. 31 Dec 2015
- Name
- Vatica prenitida
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Vatica
- 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
- 28
- Year
- 2015
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Tortonian
- Strat. comment
- Geabdat Sandstone Formation (Middle Siwalik); Upper Miocene (Sarmatian to Pontian)
- Location
- Lish 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
- 40337
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- 40338
- Diagnosis
- Leaf simple, symmetrical, narrow elliptic; preserved size 5.1 x 1.5 cm and 5.7 x 1.6 cm; apex bluntly acute; base obtuse; margin entire; texture chartaceous; venation pinnate; eucamptodromous to brochidodromous; primary vein single, prominent, almost straight, stout; secondary veins 8 pairs visible, 0.4 to 1.0 cm apart, alternate to sub–opposite, unbranched, angle of divergence (60º–70°), wide acute, lower secondary veins with greater angle, usually alternate, uniformly curved up and secondary veins join to their superadjacent secondaries and forming a loop; intersecondary veins present, simple; tertiary veins fine, angle of origin usually RR, percurrent, straight to sometime curved, branched, usually oblique in relation to mid vein rarely right angle towards the margin, predominantly alternate and close.
