Kakahu-10 (Paleocene of New Zealand)
Where: Canterbury, New Zealand (44.1° S, 171.0° E: paleocoordinates 55.8° S, 160.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone
• Prominent fissile mudstone unite c. 20 m above coal
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: adpression
Primary reference: M. Pole. 2010. Ecology of Paleocene & Eocene vegetation at Kakahu, South Canterbury, New Zealand. Palaeontologia Electronica 14-29 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 169460: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 27.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Other monocots, dicots and gnetales are also reported to be present.
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unclassified | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Malvacipollis subtilis Stover 1973 | |
Podocarpaceae indet. Endlicher 1847 podocarp
Phyllocladidites mawsonii Cookson 1947 podocarp | |
Angiospermae | |
Proteaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Myrtaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 myrtle | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariaceae indet. Henckel and Hochstetter 1865 | |
Sphagnum | |
Sphagnum indet. Linnaeus 1753 peat moss |