Brooker Highway (Eocene of Australia)

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

• Environment not reported.

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

• Authors mentioned another 9 possible collections in the paper. However, they do not stated their coordinates.
Angiospermae
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Euproteaciphyllum brookerensis n. sp. Jordan et al. 1998
Euproteaciphyllum tasmanicum n. sp. Jordan et al. 1998