Also known as Stony Creek Basin
Where: Victoria, Australia (37.6° S, 144.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° S, 144.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Between 1.555 & 1.835 Ma.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; unlithified, massive, black, green, silty claystone and sandy siltstone
Size class: microfossils
• Plant macrofossils and insects.
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collected in 2000
Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric, sieve
• c. 40-m-long sediment core.
Primary reference: J. M. K. Sniderman. 2011. Early Pleistocene vegetation change in upland south-eastern Australia. Journal of Biogeography 38(8):1456-1470 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172830: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 27.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Gleichenia indet. Smith 1793 | |
Lophosoria indet. Presl 1847
Calochlaena "Culcita" Turner and White 1988
Dicksonia indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1788 | |
Pteridium indet. Gleditsch and Scopoli 1760 | |
Cyathea indet. Smith 1793 scaly tree fern | |
cf. Lygodium indet. Swartz 1800 climbing fern | |
Polypodiaceae indet. Presl and Presl 1822 | |
Lycopsida | |
Pteridopsida | |
Monolites cf. alveolatus Couper 1969 | |
Monolete | |
Monolete "psilate" Van der Hammen et al. 1973 | |
Podocarpus "Prumnopitys", Dacrydium indet., Podocarpidites sp., Dacrycarpus indet., Phyllocladus indet.
Podocarpus "Prumnopitys" L'Heritier and Persoon 1807 podocarp
Dacrydium indet. Soland and Lambert 1807 podocarp
Podocarpidites sp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Dacrycarpus indet. de Laubenfels 1969 podocarp
Phyllocladus indet. Richard and Mirbel 1825 podocarp | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Rhoipites alveolatus Couper 1953 | |
Angiospermae | |
Beauprea indet. Brongniart and Gris 1871 | |
Proteaceae "undif." de Jussieu 1789
Banksia "minor 31 μm" Linnaeus 1782
Hakea "gemmate" Schrader 1798 | |
Plantago indet. Linnaeus 1753 plantain | |
Ilex indet. Linnaeus 1753 holly | |
Asteraceae "tubuliflorae" Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy | |
Chenopodiaceae "Amaranthaceae minor 10P" Ventenant 1799 | |
Haloragis "Gonocarpus" Forster and Forster 1775 | |
Myriophyllum indet. Linnaeus 1753 water milfoil | |
Cyperaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 sedge | |
Poaceae indet. Barnhart 1895 grass | |
Restionaceae "undif." Brown 1810 | |
cf. Garcinia cuspidata mangosteen | |
Amperea indet. Jussieu 1824 spurge | |
Cunoniaceae "3C" Brown 1814 | |
Elaeocarpus indet. Linnaeus 1753 | |
Casuarinaceae indet. Brown 1814 | |
Nothofagus "Brassospora" Blume 1850
Nothofagus "Lophozonia" Blume 1850 | |
Gyrostemonaceae indet. Endlicher 1845 | |
Winteraceae indet. Lindley 1830 magnoliids | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Symplocos indet. Jacquin 1760 sweetleaf | |
Ericaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 heather | |
Myrsine indet. Linnaeus 1753 | |
Myrtaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 myrtle
Eucalyptus indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789 eucalyptus
Eucalyptus "spathulata type" L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789 eucalyptus | |
Angiospermae | |
Triglochin "Typha" Linnaeus 1753 arrowgrass | |
Algae | |
Botryococcus "spores" Kutzing 1849 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariaceae indet. Henckel and Hochstetter 1865
Araucaria indet. de Jussieu 1789 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Isoetes indet. Linnaeus 1753 quillwort | |
Selaginella indet. Beauvois 1804 spikemoss |