†Gomphandroxylon samnapurensis Bande and Khatri 1980 (white pear)
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Angiospermae - Icacinales - Icacinaceae
Full reference: M. B. Bande and S.K. Khatri. 1980. Some more fossil woods from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mandla District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Palaeontographica 173B:147-165
Belongs to Gomphandroxylon according to M. B. Bande and S.K. Khatri 1980
See also Srivastava 1991 and Wheeler et al. 2017
Sister taxon: Gomphandroxylon samnapurense
Type specimen: BSIP 35313, a wood. Its type locality is Samnapur, which is in a Paleogene fluvial horizon in the Deccan Intertrappean Formation of India.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Samnapur
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