Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.5° S, 145.7° E: paleocoordinates 58.3° S, 145.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Proteacidites tuberculatus pollen zone, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• Early Oligocene sediments on the Lea River, north-western Tasmania (Jordan et al. 1998).
•The sediment has been dated by palynological correlation as Oligocene (M.K. Macphail pers. comm.).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone
•eroding bank of the Lea River.
•Conifer fossils from Hill et al. 2003 and Hill et al. 2008 were found in siltstone in the lower portion of the exposure and in loose blocks near the water line.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: chemical, peroxide
Primary reference: R. S. Hill, G. J. Jordan, and R. J. Carpenter. 1993. Taxodiaceous Macrofossils from Tertiary and Quaternary Sediments in Tasmania. Australian Systematic Botany 6(3):237-249 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166597: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 19.02.2015, edited by Carlos Jaramillo
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Angiospermae | |
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Orites scleromorpha n. sp.4 Jordan et al. 1998
Orites milliganoides n. sp.4 Jordan et al. 1998
Euproteaciphyllum papillosum n. sp.4 Jordan et al. 1998 | |
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Eucryphia leaensis n. sp.1 Barnes and Jordan 2000
Eucryphia reticulata n. sp.1 Barnes and Jordan 2000 | |
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Athrotaxis mesibovii n. sp. Hill et al. 1993 cypress
Fitzroya tasmanensis n. sp.3 Hill and Whang 1996 cypress Synonyms: Fitzroya acutifolius, Dacrycarpus acutifolius
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| Equisetopsida | |
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Agathis sp.2 Salisbury 1807
Agathis brevigongylodes2 Hill et al. 2008 | |