ALCOA Anglesea Site I Mesophyll lens (Eocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.4° S, 144.2° E: paleocoordinates 59.8° S, 144.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: lower and middle Nothofagidites asperus pollen zone, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lenticular claystone

• The fossiliferous clays form lenses within a thick deposit of fine to coarse, cross-bedded sands. The fossil flowers occur in a clay lens 5 m above the top of the coal seam.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: chemical

• At least 20 taxa (not formally described here).

Primary reference: D. C. Christophel, W. K. Harris, and A. K. Syber. 1987. The Eocene flora of the Anglesea Locality, Victoria. Alcheringa 11(4):303-323 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166973: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 05.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• 300 specimens.
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unclassified
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"Serrate I" indet., "Serrate II" indet., "Notophyll II" indet., "Others taxa" indet.
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Cycadales indet.
Cycadales indet. Dumortier 1829 cycads
 Cycadales - Zamiaceae
Pterostoma indet.
Pterostoma indet. Hill 1980 cycads
Gymnospermae
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"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta Reveal 1996
Magnoliopsida
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Haloragacidites harrisii
Haloragacidites harrisii Mildenhall and Harris 1971
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Ebenaceae
Ebenaceae indet.
Ebenaceae indet. Guerke 1891
Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Lauraceae ("I") indet., Lauraceae ("II") indet., Lauraceae ("IV") indet.
Lauraceae ("I") indet. Jussieu 1789 laurel
Lauraceae ("II") indet. Jussieu 1789 laurel
Lauraceae ("IV") indet. Jussieu 1789 laurel
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteaceae ("Lobed") indet., Banksieaephyllum indet.
Banksieaephyllum indet. Cookson and Duigan 1950
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Cupanieidites spp.
Cupanieidites spp. Cookson and Pike 1954 soapberry
 Malvales - Sterculiaceae
Brachychiton indet.
Brachychiton indet. Schott and Endlicher 1832