Where: South Australia, Australia (35.2° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 57.7° S, 134.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)
• Alley (1987) assigned a Middle Eocene age to the flora based on an analysis of the microflora.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167307: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 11.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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