Loch Aber - Banksieae (Eocene to of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.0° S, 148.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 57.9° S, 165.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• M. K. Macphail (personal communication) considered that the microflora can be assigned stratigraphically to the Lower NothoJagidites asperus Zone of Stover & Partridge (1973).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

• Fossiliferous mudstone (Hill, 1989).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: chemical

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167310: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 11.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
aff. Phyllocladus aspleniifolius aspleniifolius1
Angiospermae
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Banksieaephyllum attenuatum n. sp.
Banksieaephyllum attenuatum n. sp. Hill and Christophel 1988
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Acmopyle tasmanica n. sp.2, Dacrycarpus mucronatus2, Willungia oppositifolia3
Acmopyle tasmanica n. sp.2 Hill and Carpenter 1991 podocarp
Dacrycarpus mucronatus2 Wells and Hill 1989 podocarp
Willungia oppositifolia3 Hill and Pole 1992 podocarp
1Hill 1989; 2Hill and Carpenter 1991; 3Hill and Pole 1992