Alcoa Anglesea locality, Site II Lens B: Late/Upper Eocene, Australia
collected by D. C. Christophel 1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
informal Serrate I indet. leaf, cuticle
Christophel et al. 1987 12 %-specimens
informal Serrate II indet. leaf, cuticle
Christophel et al. 1987 4 %-specimens
informal Serrate III indet. leaf, cuticle
Christophel et al. 1987 5 %-specimens
informal 3 Veined Microphyll indet. leaf, cuticle
Christophel et al. 1987 4 %-specimens
informal Acrodromous Notophyll indet. leaf, cuticle
Christophel et al. 1987 3 %-specimens
informal Notophyll I indet. leaf, cuticle
Christophel et al. 1987 7 %-specimens
informal Notophyll II indet. leaf, cuticle
Christophel et al. 1987 3 %-specimens
informal Others taxa indet. leaf, cuticle
Christophel et al. 1987 30 %-specimens
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Zamiaceae
Pterostoma indet. leaf, cuticle Hill 1980
Christophel et al. 1987 6 %-specimens
Magnoliopsida
Haloragacidites harrisii microspore Mildenhall and Harris 1971
Christophel et al. 1987
Angiospermae - Ericales - Ebenaceae
Ebenaceae indet. leaf, cuticle Guerke 1891
Christophel et al. 1987 2 %-specimens
Angiospermae - Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Myrtaciphyllum indet. leaf, cuticle Christophel and Lys 1986
Christophel et al. 1987 8 %-specimens
Myrtaciphyllum douglasii leaf, cuticle Christophel and Lys 1986
n. sp.
Myrtaciphyllum undulatum leaf, cuticle Christophel and Lys 1986
n. gen. n. sp.
Angiospermae - Myrtales
Myrtaceidites spp. microspore
Christophel et al. 1987
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Lauraceae (informal I) indet. leaf, cuticle Jussieu 1789
Christophel et al. 1987 8 %-specimens
Lauraceae (informal II) indet. leaf, cuticle Jussieu 1789
Christophel et al. 1987 2 %-specimens
Lauraceae (informal III) indet. leaf, cuticle Jussieu 1789
Christophel et al. 1987 1 %-specimens
Lauraceae (informal IV) indet. leaf, cuticle Jussieu 1789
Christophel et al. 1987 3 %-specimens
Angiospermae - Escalloniales - Escalloniaceae
Quintinia indet. leaf, cuticle Labillardière 1845
Christophel et al. 1987 2 %-specimens
Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteacidites spp. microspore
Christophel et al. 1987
Angiospermae - Fagales
Nothofagidites spp. microspore
Christophel et al. 1987
Angiospermae - Oxalidales - Elaeocarpaceae
Elaeocarpaceae indet. microspore de Candolle 1816
Christophel et al. 1987
Angiospermae - Oxalidales - Cunoniaceae
Cunoniaceae (informal tricolpate) indet. microspore Brown 1814
Christophel et al. 1987
Cunoniaceae (informal dicolpate) indet. microspore Brown 1814
Christophel et al. 1987
Gymnospermae
Gymnospermae indet. microspore ()
Christophel et al. 1987
replaced by Pinophyta
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podocarpidites spp. microspore
Christophel et al. 1987
Phyllocladineae
Phyllocladites mawsonii microspore
Christophel et al. 1987
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.4° South, 144.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.7° South, 142.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene
Age range of interval:37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: The fossiliferous clay lenses are basal Upper Eocene in age and the geology of the deposit has been described by Christophel et al. (1987).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular claystone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collectors:D. C. Christophel Collection dates:1985
Collection method comments: Banksieaephyllum less than 1%.
Taxonomic list comments:200 specimens
Metadata
Database number:166980
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Jaramillo
Modifier:C. Jaramillo
Collections that are a subset of this one:167130
Created:2015-03-05 12:47:55 Last modified:2015-03-09 16:41:29
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-05 12:47:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

54542. D. C. Christophel and S. D. Lys. 1986. Mummified Leaves of Two New Species of Myrtaceae from the Eocene of Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 34(6):649-662 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]

Secondary references:

54802 D. C. Christophel. 1994. The early Tertiary macrofloras of continental Australia. History of the Australian Vegetation. Cretaceous to Recent [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]
54383 D. C. Christophel, W. K. Harris, and A. K. Syber. 1987. The Eocene flora of the Anglesea Locality, Victoria. Alcheringa 11(4):303-323 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cárdenas]