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

 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Angiospermae
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Banksieaephyllum attenuatum n. sp. Hill and Christophel 1988
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Acmopyle tasmanica n. sp.2 Hill and Carpenter 1991 podocarp
Dacrycarpus mucronatus2 Wells and Hill 1989 podocarp
Willungia oppositifolia3 Hill and Pole 1992 podocarp