Regatta Point Early/Middle Pleistocene (Pleistocene to of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.2° S, 145.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 145.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)

• On the basis of palynology, Macphail et al. 1993

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gravel

• The Regatta Point fossils of this study were found in mudstones and sandstone clast within gravels.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: G. J. Jordan. 1995. Early Middle Pleistocene leaves of extinct and extant Proteaceae from western Tasmania, Australia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 118:19-35 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas /C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167014: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 06.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Banksia cf. kingii, Banksia strahanensis
Angiospermae
 Oxalidales - Cunoniaceae
Eucryphia sp.
Eucryphia sp. Cavanilles 1798
Dispersed cuticle
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Orites revoluta, Orites truncata n. sp., Telopea truncata, Telopea cf. mongaensis, Telopea strahanensis n. sp., Cenarrhenes nitida, cf. Lomatia indet., Hakea sp., Agastachys odorata
Orites truncata n. sp. Jordan 1995
sp. nov.
Telopea strahanensis n. sp. Jordan 1995
sp. nov.
cf. Lomatia indet. Brown 1810
Hakea sp. Schrader 1798