Sharma Dinesh Chandra, Khan Mohd Sajid, Khan M Salman, Srivastava Rashmi, Srivastava Ashwini Kumar, Shukla Ritu
Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow-226026, India.
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow-226007, India.
Bioinformation. 2014 May 20;10(5):316-9. doi: 10.6026/97320630010316. eCollection 2014.
The occurrence of a large number of fossil woods having resemblance in anatomical features with the modern palm genus, Phoenix L in Deccan Intertrappean fossil flora of Maastrichtian-Danian age (i. e. Late Cretaceous and Earliest Tertiary (65-67 my)) indicates the most primitive record of date palm. Present discovery of biocompounds from fossil wood of Phoenix collected from Deccan Intertrappean having affinity with the biocompounds known from modern plant further exemplify the earliest documentation of Phoenix in Indian peninsula.
在马斯特里赫特阶-达宁阶(即晚白垩世和早第三纪(6500 - 6700万年前))的德干暗色岩间化石植物群中,出现了大量在解剖特征上与现代棕榈属海枣属相似的化石木材,这表明了海枣最原始的记录。目前从德干暗色岩间采集的海枣化石木材中发现的生物化合物与现代植物中已知的生物化合物具有亲缘关系,这进一步例证了海枣在印度半岛的最早记载。