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Cerbera miocenica
Cerbera miocenica Mah. Prasad, Kannaujia, Alok, S.K. Singh Palaeobotanist, 64(1–2): 62. 31 Dec 2015
- Name
- Cerbera miocenica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cerbera
- 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
- 62
- Year
- 2015
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Tortonian
- Strat. comment
- Geabdat Sandstone Formation (Middle Siwalik); Upper Miocene (Sarmatian to Pontian)
- Location
- Sevok Road Section, Oodlabari area, Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- 40382
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- 40383
- Diagnosis
- Leaf simple, symmetrical, large, narrow elliptic; preserved size 14.8 x 3.9 cm and 14.8 x 3.8 cm; apex attenuate; base slightly broken seemingly attenuate; margin entire; texture coriaceous; venation pinnate; eucamptodromous; primary vein single, prominent, almost straight, stout; secondary veins more than 20 pairs visible, less than 1.0 cm apart, closely placed, alternate to opposite, seemingly unbranched, angle of divergence (about 65º–85º), wide acute to right angle, lower half secondaries are with greater angle, uniformly curved up and joined to their superadjacent secondaries; intersecondary veins present, frequent, simple, 2–3 veins present between two secondaries; tertiary veins fine, poorly preserved with angle of origin usually AO, percurrent, straight to sinuous, sometime branched, oblique in relation to midvein, predominantly alternate and close.
