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Ginkgo rajmahalensis

Ginkgoopsida - Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae

Taxonomy
Ginkgoites rajmahalensis was named by Sah and Jain (1965). It is not extant. Its type locality is Sakrigali Ghat, which is in a Jurassic fluvial horizon in the Rajmahal Formation of India.

It was recombined as Ginkgo rajmahalensis by Zeba-Bano et al. (1979) and Chandra and Tewari (1991).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Ginkgoites rajmahalensis Sah and Jain
1976Ginkgoites rajmahalensis Lakhanpal et al.
1979Ginkgo rajmahalensis Zeba-Bano et al.
1991Ginkgo rajmahalensis Chandra and Tewari

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
subkingdomEmbryophyta
phylumGinkgophytaBessey 1907
classGinkgoopsidaEngler 1897
RankNameAuthor
orderGinkgoalesGoroschankin 1904
familyGinkgoaceaeEngler
genusGinkgoLinnaeus 1771
speciesrajmahalensis(Sah and Jain 1965)

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.

Ginkgo rajmahalensis Sah and Jain 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Jurassic to the top of the Cretaceous or 161.50000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Jurassic161.5 - 145.0India (Jharkhand) Ginkgo rajmahalensis (229228) Ginkgoites rajmahalensis (type locality: 224607 224652 225383) Ginkgoites rajmahalensis, Baiera sp. (224699)
Cretaceous145.0 - 66.0India (Tamil Nadu) Ginkgo rajmahalensis (229181)