Gymnospermous wood with primary structures from Gondwana Rocks - A Review

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Studies in the glossopteris flora of India - 28. On some fossil woods from the Raniganj stage of the Raniganj coalfield, Bengal

“…Scattered throughout the parenchymatous pith are isolated or sometimes grouped 1. In the review of fossil woods from the Lower Gondwana horizons (Krausel et al 1963) thick-walled cells usually filled with dark contents. These cells seem to have had some secretory function.…”

“…19, FIGS. 13, 14) suggest some sort of a mesarch structure and as such this wood needs reinvestigation (KRAUSEL et al 1963). Of the two species of Trigonomyelon, T. pedroi (Zeill.)…”

“…. In the review of fossil woods from the Lower Gondwana horizons(Krausel et al, 1963) this wood was referred as Gondwanoxylon; but as recently the name Gondwanoxylon has been used for an angiospermous wood from the Tertiary of India(Saksena, 1963), the present wood is therefore renamed as Damudoxylon.…”