Enigmocarpon chandrapurensis, a silicified fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean exposure at Pudiyalmohada in Jivati taluka of Chandrapur district, M. S.

Enigmocarpon chandrapurensis, a silicified fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean exposure at Pudiyalmohada in Jivati taluka of Chandrapur district, M. S.

Kohapare Aakash1*, Patil Sanjay2, Dahegaonkar R.R 3, Kapgate V. D.4

1, 2 & 3 Botany Department, Dr. Ambedkar College, Chandrapur, M.S.

    4. Botany Department, D. D. Bhoyar College, Mauda, Dist. Nagpur, M.S.

*Corresponding author E-mail: kohapareaakash1234@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

                                      The present paper deals with the study of dicotyledonous fruit collected from a new exposed near village Pudiyalmohada of Jivati taluka of Chandrapur District. The locality (N19034.269’, E079001.866’) shows well preserved fossil flora belongs to Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India (65-70 million age). It spared along the road side, in the field and nearby foot of hill. It is belonging to uppermost Cretaceous period. It is an eight locular petrified dicotyledonous, loculicidal capsule. The fruit is small, globular, with six to eight seeds horizontally packed back-to-back in alternating rows in each locule and showing stalked glandular outgrowths on the septae and the inner wall of the fruit. The placenta, raphe and the fruit wall are spongy. It is compared with living and fossil fruits of Lythraceae. It shows close resemblances with Enigmocarpon fruits and hence named as Enigmocarpon chandrapurensis sp. nov.

Keywords:, Deccan Intertrappean Beds, Dicot, Enigmocarpon.