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Gleichenia rewahensis

Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniaceae

Taxonomy
Gleichenia rewahensis was named by Feistmantel (1882). It is not extant. Its type locality is Bansa, Shahdol, which is in a Jurassic/Cretaceous fluvial horizon in the Bansa Formation of India.

It was recombined as Gleichenites rewahensis by Seward and Sahni (1920); it was synonymized subjectively with Gleichenia gleichenoides by Lakhanpal et al. (1976).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Gleichenia rewahensis Feistmantel
1920Gleichenites rewahensis Seward and Sahni
1977Gleichenia rewahensis Pant and Srivastava
1991Gleichenia rewahensis Chandra and Tewari

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumPteridophyta
classPolypodiopsida
RankNameAuthor
familyGleicheniaceaePresl
genusGleicheniaSmith 1793
speciesrewahensisFeistmantel 1882

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Gleichenia rewahensis Feistmantel 1882
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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No ecological data are available

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Jurassic to the top of the Early/Lower Cretaceous or 161.50000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Jurassic161.5 - 143.1India (Jharkhand) Gleichenia rewahensis (224686 224706) Gleichenites rewahensis (225504)
Late/Upper Jurassic - Early/Lower Cretaceous161.5 - 100.5India (Madhya Pradesh) Gleichenia rewahensis (type locality: 224644)
Early/Lower Cretaceous143.1 - 100.5India (Gujarat) Gleichenia rewahensis (229219)