Golden Grove: Middle 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:South Australia
Coordinates: 34.8° South, 138.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.2° South, 134.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval:Middle Eocene
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Alley (1987) assigned a Middle Eocene age to the flora based on an analysis of the microflora, and considered that the sand deposit at Golden Grove (which contains the fossiliferous material) is a correlative of the North Maslin sands (which contains the Maslin Bay fossiliferous material).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:167308
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Jaramillo
Modifier:C. Jaramillo
Created:2015-03-11 08:27:05 Last modified:2015-04-04 08:38:57
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-11 08:27:05
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]