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 172836: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 27.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Sphagnum | |
Sphagnum indet. Linnaeus 1753 peat moss | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Selaginella indet. Beauvois 1804 spikemoss | |
Lycopodium indet. Linnaeus 1753 ground pine | |
Isoetes indet. Linnaeus 1753 quillwort | |
Angiospermae | |
Sparganium indet. Linnaeus 1753 bur-reed | |
Triglochin "Typha" Linnaeus 1753 arrowgrass | |
Winteraceae indet. Lindley 1830 magnoliids | |
Nothofagus "Brassospora" Blume 1850 | |
Casuarinaceae indet. Brown 1814 | |
Pomaderris indet. Labillardière 1805 buckthorn | |
Elaeocarpus indet. Linnaeus 1753 | |
Cunoniaceae "3C" Brown 1814 | |
? Fabaceae "3p reticulate" Lindley 1836 legume
? Fabaceae "2p reticulate" Lindley 1836 legume
Acacia "equivalents" Miller 1758 wattle | |
Dodonaea indet. Miller 1758 soapberry
cf. Alectryon indet. Gaertner 1788 soapberry | |
Gyrostemonaceae indet. Endlicher 1845 | |
Moraceae "Urticaceae 3p" Link 1835 mulberry | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Myrsine indet. Linnaeus 1753 | |
Symplocos indet. Jacquin 1760 sweetleaf | |
Ericaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 heather | |
Myrtaceae indet., Corymbia "Angophora", Leptospermum indet., Acmena "type", cf. Melaleuca "Callistemon", Syzygium "type", cf. Lophostemon indet., Rhodamnia "Rhodomyrtus", Eucalyptus indet.
Myrtaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 myrtle
Corymbia "Angophora" Hill and Johnson 1995 myrtle
Leptospermum indet. Forster and Forster 1775 myrtle
Acmena "type" Candolle 1828 myrtle
cf. Melaleuca "Callistemon" Linnaeus 1767 honey-myrtle
Syzygium "type" Browne and Gaertner 1788 bush cherry
cf. Lophostemon indet. Schott 1830 myrtle
Rhodamnia "Rhodomyrtus" Jack 1822 myrtle
Eucalyptus indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789 eucalyptus | |
Angiospermae | |
Rapanea indet. Aublet 1775 | |
Proteaceae "undif.", Hakea "gemmate", cf. Orites indet., Banksia "minor 30μm", Banksia "major 31μm", cf. Lomatia indet.
Proteaceae "undif." de Jussieu 1789
Hakea "gemmate" Schrader 1798
cf. Orites indet. Brown 1810
Banksia "minor 30μm" Linnaeus 1782
Banksia "major 31μm" Linnaeus 1782
cf. Lomatia indet. Brown 1810 | |
Haloragodendron "Glishrocaryon" Orchard 1975 water milfoil | |
Haloragis "Gonocarpus" Forster and Forster 1775 | |
Apiaceae indet. Lindley 1836 | |
Araliaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 | |
Asteraceae "tubuliflorae" Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy | |
Goodeniaceae indet. Brown 1810 | |
Ilex indet. Linnaeus 1753 holly | |
Quintinia indet. Candolle 1830 | |
Plantago indet. Linnaeus 1753 plantain | |
Drosera indet. Linnaeus 1753 sundew | |
Chenopodiaceae "Amaranthaceae minor 10P" Ventenant 1799 | |
Loranthaceae indet. de Jussieu 1808 mistletoe | |
Liliaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 | |
Ripogonum indet. Forster and Forster 1776 | |
Cyperaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 sedge | |
Restionaceae "undif." Brown 1810 | |
Poaceae indet. Barnhart 1895 grass | |
Cupressaceae indet. Gray 1822 cypress | |
Dacrycarpus indet., Microstrobos indet., Phyllocladus indet., Podosporites cf. microsaccatus, Podocarpidites sp., Dacrydium indet., Podocarpus "Prumnopitys"
Dacrycarpus indet. de Laubenfels 1969 podocarp
Microstrobos indet. Garden and Johnson 1950 podocarp
Phyllocladus indet. Richard and Mirbel 1825 podocarp
Podosporites cf. microsaccatus Dettmann 1963 podocarp
Podocarpidites sp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Dacrydium indet. Soland and Lambert 1807 podocarp
Podocarpus "Prumnopitys" L'Heritier and Persoon 1807 podocarp | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Dicksonia indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1788
Lophosoria indet. Presl 1847 | |
Gleichenia indet. Smith 1793 | |
cf. Lygodium indet. Swartz 1800 climbing fern | |
Cyathea indet. Smith 1793 scaly tree fern | |
Polypodiaceae indet. Presl and Presl 1822 | |
Lycopsida | |
Monolete | |
Monolete "psilate" Van der Hammen et al. 1973 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariaceae indet. Henckel and Hochstetter 1865
Agathis indet. Salisbury 1807 | |
Algae | |
Botryococcus "spores" Kutzing 1849 |