Dean's Marsh: Early/Lower Eocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
Banksieaephyllum cuneatum leaf, cuticle Hill and Christophel 1988
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.6° South, 143.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:61.1° South, 147.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene Pollen zone: Malvacipollis diversus
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: W. K. Harris (personal communication) has placed the microflora in the Malvacipollis diversus zone of Stover & Partridge (1973), which spans the Early Eocene.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:167305
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Jaramillo
Modifier:C. Jaramillo
Created:2015-03-11 07:54:47 Last modified:2015-04-04 09:36:57
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-11 07:54:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
54569. R. S. Hill and D. C. Christophel. 1988. Tertiary leaves of the tribe Banksieae (Proteaceae) from south-eastern Australia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 97(2):205-227 [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]