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A report on biocompounds from palm fossil of India
Dinesh Chandra Sharma1, Mohd Sajid Khan1, M Salman Khan1
1Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow-226026, India.
Abstract:
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.
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