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 Nothofagus asperus pollen zone, Eastern View Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• the clay lenses are placed, based on diagnostic taxa which begin their stratigraphic range, at the base of the Triorites magnificus Zone, at or about that point which corresponds to the boundary of the Lower and Middle N. asperus Zone of late Middle Eocene age. The coal is of a Middle Eocene
•age.
Environment/lithology: "channel"; lenticular claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
• Compressions or mummified leaves.
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: chemical
• Palynomorphs: slides were scanned until 200 spores and pollen grains were counted.
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 167109: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 07.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•400 specimens.
unclassified | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Lygodium dinmorphyllum Churchill 1969 climbing fern | |
Angiospermae | |
Anacolosidites luteoides Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
Lauraceae ("I") indet. Jussieu 1789 laurel | |
Gymnostoma indet. Johnson 1980 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Haloragacidites harrisii Mildenhall and Harris 1971 | |
unclassified | |
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta Reveal 1996 | |
Bryopsida | |
Stereisporites antiquasporites Dettmann 1963 | |
Cycadopsida | |
Pterostoma zamioides Hill 1980 cycads |