Mitchell River (Permian of Australia)

Also known as PGAP 13146

Where: Queensland, Australia (16.5° S, 144.1° E: paleocoordinates 53.2° S, 138.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Guadalupian (272.3 - 259.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L.P. Black, W.R. Morgan, and M.E. White. 1972. Age of a mixed Cardiopteris-Glossopteris flora from Rb-Sr measurements on the Nychum volcanics, North Queensland. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 19:189-196 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29434: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List from p. 190. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Arberiopsida
 Arberiales -
Glossopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1828
 Coniferales -
Samaropsis "sp. 1" Göppert 1864
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 cycads
Taeniopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1828 cycads