Some Plant Remains from the Upper Gondwana of East Coast, India

K.P. Jain

doi:10.54991/jop.1967.514

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K.P. Jain Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1967.514

Abstract

Description of a few fossil plant remains, recently collected from Athgarh and Vemavaram along the East Coast of India, forms the subject of the present paper. Here, for the first time a new species of Phlebopteris, (P. athgarhensis) in association with Rhizomopteris ballii Feistm., has been recorded from Athgarh.

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