Monitor Bores DWT 495 (Eocene to of Australia)

Also known as Lefroy paleodrainage

Where: Western Australia, Australia (31.2° S, 121.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.1° S, 108.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Lower Nothofagidites asperus pollen zone, Pidinga Formation, Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; carbonaceous siltstone and claystone

• The Pidinga Formation contains carbonaceous silts, clays, and water-worn wood fragments interpreted as being flood plain and channel sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydroflouric, peroxide

• Depth 29.5 m y 48.5 m.

Primary reference: R. J. Carpenter and M. Pole. 1995. Eocene Plant Fossils from the Lefroy and Cowan Paleodrainages, Western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(6):1107-1154 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169416: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 25.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Angiosperm "indet. 8"
Angiospermae
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteaceae "sp. 10", Telopea sp.
Proteaceae "sp. 10" de Jussieu 1789
CUT-P-010
Telopea sp. Brown 1811
CUT-P-004
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Acmopyle setiger
Acmopyle setiger Hill and Carpenter 1991 podocarp