Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.5° S, 151.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° S, 149.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Proteacidites tuberculatus pollen zone, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; ferruginous, gray, white claystone
•staining coats many of the leaf impressions. Pale grey claystone bearing leaf impressions retaining a small amount of coalified organic matter.
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: chemical
• Collected by T. W. E. David and C. S. Wilkinson, some time in the 1870s to early 1880s.
Primary reference: S. McLoughlin, R. J. Carpenter, and C. Pott. 2011. Ptilophyllum muelleri (Ettingsh.) comb. nov. from the Oligocene of Australia: Last of the Bennettitales?. International Journal of Plant Sciences 172(4):574-585 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167685: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 28.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ptilophyllum muelleri Ettingshausen 1886 comb. nov. Synonym: Ettingshausen 1886 (p. 9, pl. VIII, figs. 19–22).
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