Bacchus Marsh - Lucifer Mine (Oligocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.7° S, 144.4° E: paleocoordinates 53.2° S, 142.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Cookson and Pike (1954), assigned a probable Oligocene age (Hill and Carpenter, 1991).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and coal

• Cookson and Pike (1953)reported D. praecupressinus in a sandy layer on top of the coal at the Lucifer Mine, Bacchus Marsh (Hill and Carpenter, 1991).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: R. S. Hill and R. J. Carpenter. 1991. Evolution of Acmopyle and Dacrycarpus (Podocarpaceae) Foliage as Inferred from Macrofossils in South-eastern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 4(3):449-479 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167352: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 12.03.2015

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 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Dacrycarpus latrobensis
Dacrycarpus latrobensis Hill and Carpenter 1991 podocarp