Polypodiopsida - Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Full reference: S. Bera, S. Gupta, and R. Mukhopadhyay. 2014. Systematic descriptions, in First megafossil evidence of Cyatheaceous tree fern from the Indian Cenozoic. Journal of Earth System Science 123:1433-1438
Belongs to Cyathea according to S. Bera et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Cyathea tchihatcheffi, Trichopteris filamentosa, Hemitelia pinnata
Type specimen: Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, CUH/PPL/IB7/TF/1 (stem fragment). Its type locality is Chander Nagar-Gohpur Road cutting, Itanagar, which is in a Pliocene/Pleistocene fluvial shale in the Kimin Formation of India.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Chander Nagar-Gohpur Road cutting, Itanagar
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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