Loch Aber - Banksieae: Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
Banksieaephyllum attenuatum leaf, cuticle Hill and Christophel 1988
n. sp.
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Dacrycarpus mucronatus sterile axis, cuticle Wells and Hill 1989
Hill and Carpenter 1991
aff. Phyllocladus aspleniifolius cuticle, leaf Hooker 1845
Hill 1989
var. aspleniifolius
Acmopyle tasmanica leaf, cuticle Hill and Carpenter 1991
Hill and Carpenter 1991
n. sp.
Willungia oppositifolia leaf, cuticle Hill and Pole 1992
Hill and Pole 1992
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Tasmania
Coordinates: 41.0° South, 148.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:61.2° South, 150.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Key time interval:Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene Pollen zone: Lower Nothofagidites asperus
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: M. K. Macphail (personal communication) considered that the microflora can be assigned stratigraphically to the Lower NothoJagidites asperus Zone of Stover & Partridge (1973).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: Fossiliferous mudstone (Hill, 1989).
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:chemical
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:167310
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Jaramillo
Modifier:C. Jaramillo
Created:2015-03-11 09:09:27 Last modified:2015-03-14 20:23:40
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-11 09:09:27
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:

54614 R. S. Hill. 1989. New species of Phyllocladus (Podocarpaceae) macrofossils from south eastern Australia. Alcheringa 13(3):193-208 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]
54599 R. S. Hill and R. J. Carpenter. 1991. Evolution of Acmopyle and Dacrycarpus (Podocarpaceae) Foliage as Inferred from Macrofossils in South-eastern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 4(3):449-479 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]
54677 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 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/M. Uhen]