Sekerkote (Quaternary of India)

Where: Tripura, India (23.7° N, 91.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 91.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quaternary (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Late Quaternary" (Chauhan 1991)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: M. S. Chauhan. 1991. A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany. 1-50 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 228883: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 16.01.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Lygodium sp. Swartz 1800 climbing fern
  - Polypodiaceae
Phymatodes sp. Presl 1836
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Balsaminaceae
Balsaminaceae indet. von Berchtold and Presl 1824 balsam
 Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Melaleuca sp. Linnaeus 1767 honey-myrtle
Angiospermae
 Poales - Poaceae
Poaceae indet. Barnhart 1895 grass
 Caryophyllales - Chenopodiaceae
Chenopodiaceae indet. Ventenant 1799
 Lamiales - Scrophulariaceae
Pedicularis sp. Linnaeus 1753 lousewort
 Asterales - Asteraceae
Asteraceae indet. Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Nymphaeaceae indet. Salisbury 1805 water lily
 Fabales - Fabaceae
"Leguminosae indet." = Fabaceae, Bauhinia sp.
"Leguminosae indet." = Fabaceae Lindley 1836 legume
Bauhinia sp. Linnaeus 1753 legume
 Sapindales - Anacardiaceae
Mangifera sp. Linnaeus 1753 mango
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinus sp. Linnaeus 1753 pine