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 172880: 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 | |
Calochlaena "Culcita" Turner and White 1988
Dicksonia indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1788 | |
Peromonolites sp. Couper 1953 | |
Pteridium indet. Gleditsch and Scopoli 1760 | |
Cyathea indet. Smith 1793 scaly tree fern | |
Polypodiaceae indet. Presl and Presl 1822 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Monolites cf. alveolatus Couper 1969 | |
Monolete | |
Monolete "psilate" Van der Hammen et al. 1973 | |
Podocarpus "Prumnopitys", Podosporites cf. microsaccatus, Dacrydium indet., Podocarpidites sp., Microstrobos indet., Dacrycarpus indet., Phyllocladus indet.
Podocarpus "Prumnopitys" L'Heritier and Persoon 1807 podocarp
Podosporites cf. microsaccatus Dettmann 1963 podocarp
Dacrydium indet. Soland and Lambert 1807 podocarp
Podocarpidites sp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Microstrobos indet. Garden and Johnson 1950 podocarp
Dacrycarpus indet. de Laubenfels 1969 podocarp
Phyllocladus indet. Richard and Mirbel 1825 podocarp | |
Cupressaceae indet. Gray 1822 cypress | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Rhoipites alveolatus Couper 1953 | |
Angiospermae | |
Proteaceae "undif.", Banksia "minor 30μm", cf. Orites indet., Stirlingia "Conospermeae", Grevillea "Hakea", Hakea "gemmate"
Proteaceae "undif." de Jussieu 1789
Banksia "minor 30μm" Linnaeus 1782
cf. Orites indet. Brown 1810
Stirlingia "Conospermeae" Endlicher 1837
Grevillea "Hakea" Brown and Knight 1809
Hakea "gemmate" Schrader 1798 | |
Ranunculaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 buttercup | |
Plantago indet. Linnaeus 1753 plantain | |
cf. Oleaceae indet. Hoffmannsegg and Link 1809 | |
Coprosma indet. Forster and Forster 1775 coffee | |
Araliaceae indet. Jussieu 1789
Araliaceae "Rutaceae?" Jussieu 1789 | |
Apiaceae indet. Lindley 1836 | |
Asteraceae "tubuliflorae" Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy | |
Villarsia "Menyanthaceae" Ventenat 1803 | |
Goodeniaceae indet. Brown 1810 | |
Loranthaceae indet. de Jussieu 1808 mistletoe | |
Chenopodiaceae "Amaranthaceae minor 10P" Ventenant 1799 | |
Muehlenbeckia indet. Meisner 1841 knotweed
Muehlenbeckia "horrida type" Meisner 1841 knotweed
Rumex indet. Linnaeus 1753 dock | |
Haloragis "Gonocarpus" Forster and Forster 1775 | |
Myriophyllum indet. Linnaeus 1753 water milfoil
Haloragodendron "Glishrocaryon" Orchard 1975 water milfoil | |
Cyperaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 sedge | |
Poaceae indet. Barnhart 1895 grass | |
Restionaceae "undif." Brown 1810 | |
Arecaceae "dicolpate" von Berchtold and Presl 1820 palm | |
Liliaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 | |
Rhamnaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 buckthorn
Pomaderris indet. Labillardière 1805 buckthorn | |
Amperea indet. Jussieu 1824 spurge | |
Cunoniaceae "3C" Brown 1814 | |
Acacia "equivalents" Miller 1758 wattle | |
Casuarinaceae indet. Brown 1814 | |
Nothofagus "Brassospora" Blume 1850
Nothofagus "Lophozonia" Blume 1850 | |
Gyrostemonaceae indet. Endlicher 1845 | |
Dodonaea indet. Miller 1758 soapberry | |
Malvaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 mallow | |
Winteraceae indet. Lindley 1830 magnoliids | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Leucopogon indet. Brown 1810 | |
Symplocos indet. Jacquin 1760 sweetleaf | |
Ericaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 heather
Monotoca indet. Brown 1810 heather | |
Myrsine indet. Linnaeus 1753 | |
Myrtaceae "10/12 micron", Myrtaceae indet., Acmena "type", Eucalyptus indet., Eucalyptus "spathulata type", Corymbia "Angophora", cf. Melaleuca "Callistemon", cf. Lophostemon indet., Leptospermum indet., Rhodamnia "Rhodomyrtus", Syzygium "type"
Myrtaceae "10/12 micron" de Jussieu 1789 myrtle
Myrtaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 myrtle
Acmena "type" Candolle 1828 myrtle
Eucalyptus indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789 eucalyptus
Eucalyptus "spathulata type" L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789 eucalyptus
Corymbia "Angophora" Hill and Johnson 1995 myrtle
cf. Melaleuca "Callistemon" Linnaeus 1767 honey-myrtle
cf. Lophostemon indet. Schott 1830 myrtle
Leptospermum indet. Forster and Forster 1775 myrtle
Rhodamnia "Rhodomyrtus" Jack 1822 myrtle
Syzygium "type" Browne and Gaertner 1788 bush cherry | |
Angiospermae | |
Triglochin "Typha" Linnaeus 1753 arrowgrass | |
Algae | |
Botryococcus "spores" Kutzing 1849 | |
Sphagnum | |
Sphagnum indet. Linnaeus 1753 peat moss | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariaceae indet. Henckel and Hochstetter 1865
Araucaria indet. de Jussieu 1789
Agathis indet. Salisbury 1807 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Isoetes indet. Linnaeus 1753 quillwort | |
Anthocerotopsida | |
Anthoceros indet. Linnaeus |