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
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 | |
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Cycadopsida | |
Lepidozamia foveolata Hill 1980 cycads
Pterostoma anastomosans Hill 1980 cycads
Bowenia papillosa Hill 1978 cycads | |
Angiospermae | |
Casuarina sp. Linnaeus 1759 | |
Menispermaphyllum tomentosum n. gen. n. sp.3
Menispermaphyllum tomentosum n. gen. n. sp.3 Hill 1989 | |
Laurophyllum pubescens n. sp.2, Laurophyllum brochidodromum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum angulosum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum conspicuum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum lanceolatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum intramarginatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum acuminatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum acrodromum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum sinuatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum arcuatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum squamatum n. sp.2, Laurophyllum acutum n. sp.2
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