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A silicified palm fruit collected from the Deccan Intertrappean beds near Shahpura in Mandla District of Madhya Pradesh has been described. It shows close resemblance with the fruits of modern Hyphaene Gaertn., and has been described under a new genus Hyphaeneocarpon, instituted to include fossil fruits belonging to the modern taxa of Hyphaene alliance of Borassoid group of palms.

Clavadiporopollenites raneriensis gen. et. sp. nov. described here is based on the light and scanning electron microscopial observation. The new taxon has been recovered alongwith the typical marker taxa from bore-core no. RGBH-33/14 drilled at Raneri Village in Bikaner District, Rajasthan, India. Clavadiporopollenites is characteristically a diporate pollen with a whorl of clava around each pore and microreticulate exine.

Palmoxylon livistonoides sp. nov., a fossil palm stem showing close affinities with the extant genus Livistona is described here from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Nawargaon in Wardha District, Maharashtra.