This paper deals with the investigation of the petrified flower Chitaleypushpam mohgaoense Paradkar and redescribes the flower in as much detail as possible. The present petrified flower was collected from well-known fossiliferous locality Mohgaonkalan, M.P., India, where Deccan Intertrappean beds are exposed. The previous diagnosis of the genus and the species is emended. The additional characters of Chitaleypushpam are especially about structure of carpels. In the present fossil flowers gynoecia are seven carpeled and nine carpeled in Specimen-A and Specimen-B, respectively. Besides this, in cross section the ovary reveals stellate structure. From the above discussion it is clear that present fossil flowers closely resemble Chitaleypushpam mohgaoense Paradkar in many characters and hence are placed under the same genus and species with emended diagnosis.
A new petrified Crenum-like pseudostem Crinum eocenum sp. nov., comparable to modern Crinum asiaticum L. of Amaryllidaceae has been described from the Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan, Madhya Pradesh.
A conifer female strobilus is described from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan, Madhya Pradesh, India. The description is based on two specimens exposed tangentially in silicified cherts. The female strobilus shows many bract scales arranged in a compact helix around the central axis. In the axil of each bract scale there is a dwarf shoot bearing a group of six megasporophylls with two inverted ovules on each, arranged spirally on condensed axis. The occurrence of dwarf shoot in the present cone distinguishes it from the earlier reported cones.
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