Coffeocarpon deccanii gen. et. Sp. nov. A New Petrified Dicotyledonous Berry Fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Central India

S. W. Dighe; Dr. P. S. Kokate

Volume : V, Issue : X, October - 2016

Coffeocarpon deccanii gen. et. Sp. nov. A New Petrified Dicotyledonous Berry Fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Central India

S. W. Dighe, Dr. P. S. Kokate

Abstract :

The fossil cherts were collected from Central India. A well known fossiliferous locality belonging uppermost cretaceous period. The present fossil fruit is small, fleshy, dicotyledonous, bilocular, berry (bean). The fruit wall is differentiated into three zones. The outer most thick walled epicarp and middle thin walled mesocarp and innermost thick walled endocarp. The seed is unitegmic, endospermous with central cavity. The fruit is compared with the fruits of dicotyledonous families having bilocular ,two seeded and small fleshy fruits