Coniferales - Podocarpaceae

Synonym: Prumnopitys lanceolata Greenwood 1987 [objective synonym]

Full reference: R. S. Hill and M. S. Pole. 1992. Leaf and Shoot Morphology of Extant Afrocarpus, Nageia and Retrophyllum (Podocarpaceae) Species, and Species with Similar Leaf Arrangement, from Tertiary Sediments in Australasia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(3):337-358

Belongs to Smithtonia according to R. S. Hill and M. S. Pole 1992

See also Greenwood 1987

Sister taxa: Smithtonia jonesii, Smithtonia victoriensis

Type specimens:

• Smithtonia lanceolata: Holotype: 2355, is housed in the State Herbarium of South Australia., a leaf (Cuticle)
• Prumnopitys lanceolata: Holotype: 2355, is housed in the State Herbarium of South Australia., a sterile axis (Cuticle). Its type locality is ALCOA Anglesea Site II coal mine, which is in an Eocene channel mudstone/sandstone in the Demon Bluff Formation of Australia.

Distribution: found only at ALCOA Anglesea Site II coal mine (Eocene of Australia)

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