A new Fossil Wood of Euphorbiaceae from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Madhya Pradesh

R. Dayal

doi:10.54991/jop.1967.513

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R. Dayal Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1967.513

Abstract

A new fossil dicotyledonous wood belonging to Euphorbiaceae has been described from the fossiliferous locality of Keria (21°59'40"N; 79°10'15"E). District Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh. It has been referred to Paraphyllanthoxylon Bailey (1924), and described as Paraphyllanthoxylon keriense sp. nov.

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