Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.8° S, 147.2° E: paleocoordinates 64.1° S, 156.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• The Brooker site was dated palynostratigraphically by M. K. Macphail, (pers.
•comm.) as Early Eocene.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collection methods: chemical
• Material containing compressions and impressions of leaves was collected in 1992.
Primary reference: 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. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166706: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 22.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Euproteaciphyllum brookerensis n. sp., Euproteaciphyllum tasmanicum n. sp.
Euproteaciphyllum brookerensis n. sp. Jordan et al. 1998
Euproteaciphyllum tasmanicum n. sp. Jordan et al. 1998 |