Angiospermae - Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Full reference: L. J. Scriven and R. S. Hill. 1995. Macrofossil Casuarinaceae: their Identification and the Oldest Macrofossil Record, Gymnostoma antiquum sp. nov., from the Late Paleocene of New South Wales, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(6):1035-1053
Belongs to Gymnostoma according to L. J. Scriven and R. S. Hill 1995
Sister taxon: Gymnostoma tasmanianum
Type specimen: Holotype: LB 271 / LB 272 (counterpart), infructescence, housed in the Department of Plant Science, University of Tasmania., a seed/fruit (infructescence). Its type locality is Lake Bungarby, which is in a Paleocene terrestrial mudstone in Australia.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Lake Bungarby
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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