Nerriga Flora (Eocene to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.1° S, 150.1° E: paleocoordinates 55.8° S, 152.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Malvacipollis diversus pollen zone, Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 37.2 Ma)

• Palynological and radiometric evidence suggests the early/middle Eocene boundary age (Hill, 1982).

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, carbonaceous siltstone and fine-grained, sandy mudstone

• Freshwater lake or slow-moving river (Christophel, 1994).

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: R. S. Hill. 1982. The Eocene Megafossil Flora of Nerriga. New South Wales, Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 181(1 - 3):44-77 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas /A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166623: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 20.02.2015, edited by Carlos Jaramillo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  - Gleicheniaceae
Gleicheniaceae indet.1 Presl
aff. Sticherus
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales - Zamiaceae
Lepidozamia foveolata Hill 1980 cycads
Pterostoma anastomosans Hill 1980 cycads
Bowenia papillosa Hill 1978 cycads
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Casuarina sp. Linnaeus 1759
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Menispermaphyllum tomentosum n. gen. n. sp.3 Hill 1989
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Laurophyllum pubescens n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum brochidodromum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum angulosum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum conspicuum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum lanceolatum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum intramarginatum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum acuminatum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum acrodromum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum sinuatum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum arcuatum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum squamatum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel
Laurophyllum acutum n. sp.2 Hill 1986 laurel