Kakahu-31 (Paleocene of New Zealand)

Where: Canterbury, New Zealand (44.2° S, 171.1° E: paleocoordinates 55.9° S, 160.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

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 169900: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 03.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Ferns, other monocots, dicots, cycads and gnetales are also reported to be present.
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unclassified
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Spinozonocolpites prominatus
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podocarpaceae indet., Phyllocladidites mawsonii
Podocarpaceae indet. Endlicher 1847 podocarp
Phyllocladidites mawsonii Cookson 1947 podocarp
Dominant species
Magnoliopsida
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Malvacipollis subtilis
Angiospermae
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites secarius
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteaceae indet.
Proteaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae indet.
Myrtaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 myrtle
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucariaceae indet.
Araucariaceae indet. Henckel and Hochstetter 1865