Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.1° S, 150.1° E: paleocoordinates 55.8° S, 152.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Malvacipollis diversus pollen zone, Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• Palynological and radiometric evidence suggests the early/middle Eocene boundary age (Hill, 1982).
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, carbonaceous siltstone and fine-grained, sandy mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: chemical
Primary reference: R. S. Hill. 1982. The Eocene Megafossil Flora of Nerriga. New South Wales, Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 181(1 - 3):44-77 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas /A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166623: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 20.02.2015, edited by Carlos Jaramillo
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Polypodiopsida | |
|
| |
| Cycadopsida | |
|
Lepidozamia foveolata Hill 1980 cycads
Bowenia papillosa Hill 1978 cycads
Pterostoma anastomosans Hill 1980 cycads | |
| Angiospermae | |
|
Casuarina sp. Linnaeus 1759 | |
Menispermaphyllum tomentosum n. gen. n. sp.3
Menispermaphyllum tomentosum n. gen. n. sp.3 Hill 1989 | |
Laurophyllum intramarginatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum angulosum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum sinuatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum acrodromum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum pubescens n. sp.2, Laurophyllum brochidodromum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum lanceolatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum acutum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum squamatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum acuminatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum arcuatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum conspicuum n. sp.2
| |