Brooker Highway: Early/Lower Eocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
Euproteaciphyllum tasmanicum n. sp. leaf, cuticle Jordan et al. 1998
Euproteaciphyllum brookerensis n. sp. leaf, cuticle Jordan et al. 1998
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Tasmania
Coordinates: 42.8° South, 147.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:64.1° South, 156.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:80 meters
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: The Brooker site was dated palynostratigraphically by M. K. Macphail, (pers.
comm.) as Early Eocene.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: Environment not reported.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Material containing compressions and impressions of leaves was collected in 1992.
Taxonomic list comments:Authors mentioned another 9 possible collections in the paper. However, they do not stated their coordinates.
Metadata
Database number:166706
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:A. Cárdenas
Modifier:C. Jaramillo
Created:2015-02-22 19:50:03 Last modified:2015-03-03 15:29:58
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-22 19:50:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
54441. G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, and R. S. Hill. 1998. The Macrofossil Record of Proteaceae in Tasmania: a Review with New Species. Australian Systematic Botany 11(4):465-501 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cárdenas]