PBDB Collection

Lake Lefroy CD2999 (Eocene to of Australia)

Also known as Lefroy paleodrainage

Where: Western Australia, Australia (31.2° S, 121.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 55.1° S, 122.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; carbonaceous siltstone and claystone

• The Pidinga Formation contains carbonaceous silts, clays, and water-worn wood fragments interpreted as being flood plain and channel sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydroflouric, peroxide

• Depth 38 m.

Primary reference: R. J. Carpenter and M. Pole. 1995. Eocene Plant Fossils from the Lefroy and Cowan Paleodrainages, Western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(6):1107-1154 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169414: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 25.05.2015

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unclassified
-	Angiosperm "indet. 3", Angiosperm "indet. 5", Angiosperm "indet. 6", Angiosperm "indet. 7", Angiosperm "indet. 8", Angiosperm "indet. 9", Angiosperm "indet. 10" Angiosperm "indet. 3" CUT-Z-003 Angiosperm "indet. 5" CUT-Z-005 Angiosperm "indet. 6" CUT-Z-006 Angiosperm "indet. 7" CUT-Z-007 Angiosperm "indet. 8" CUT-Z-008 Angiosperm "indet. 9" CUT-Z-009 Angiosperm "indet. 10" CUT-Z-010
Dicotyledoneae
Myrtales - Myrtaceae	Myrtaceae "sp. 2", Myrtaceae "sp. 3" Myrtaceae "sp. 2" de Jussieu 1789 myrtle CUT-M-002 Myrtaceae "sp. 3" de Jussieu 1789 myrtle CUT-M-003
Angiospermae
Fagales - Casuarinaceae	Gymnostoma sp. Gymnostoma sp. Johnson 1980 CUT-C-001
Fagales - Nothofagaceae	Nothofagus tasmanica Nothofagus tasmanica Hill 1983 CUT-Z-001
Oxalidales - Cunoniaceae	Spiraeanthemum "Acsmithia sp." Spiraeanthemum "Acsmithia sp." Gray 1854 CUT-Z-002
Proteales -	Darlingia cf. ferruginea Darlingia cf. ferruginea CUT-P-001
Proteales - Proteaceae	Proteaceae "sp. 2", Proteaceae "sp. 4", Proteaceae "sp. 6", Proteaceae "sp. 7", Proteaceae "sp. 8", Proteaceae "sp. 9", ? Hicksbeachia sp., Lomatia fraxinifolia Proteaceae "sp. 2" de Jussieu 1789 CUT-P-002 Tribe Banksieae Proteaceae "sp. 4" de Jussieu 1789 CUT-P-005 Proteaceae "sp. 6" de Jussieu 1789 CUT-P-007 Proteaceae "sp. 7" de Jussieu 1789 CUT-P-009 Proteaceae "sp. 8" de Jussieu 1789 CUT-P-011 Proteaceae "sp. 9" de Jussieu 1789 CUT-P-012 ? Hicksbeachia sp. Mueller 1882 CUT-P-003 Subtribe Gevuininae Lomatia fraxinifolia CUT-P-006
Laurales - Lauraceae	Lauraceae "sp. 5", Lauraceae "sp. 7", Lauraceae "sp. 3", Lauraceae "sp. 6", Lauraceae "sp. 9", Lauraceae "sp. 10" Lauraceae "sp. 5" Jussieu 1789 laurel CUT-L-005 Lauraceae "sp. 7" Jussieu 1789 laurel CUT-L-002 Lauraceae "sp. 3" Jussieu 1789 laurel CUT-L-007 Lauraceae "sp. 6" Jussieu 1789 laurel CUT-L-006 Lauraceae "sp. 9" Jussieu 1789 laurel CUT-L-009 Lauraceae "sp. 10" Jussieu 1789 laurel CUT-L-010

Coniferales - Podocarpaceae	Dacrydium "sp. 1", Dacrydium "sp. 2", Dacrycarpus sp., Acmopyle setiger Dacrydium "sp. 1" Soland and Lambert 1807 podocarp Dacrydium "sp. 2" Soland and Lambert 1807 podocarp Dacrycarpus sp. de Laubenfels 1969 podocarp Acmopyle setiger Hill and Carpenter 1991 podocarp
Coniferales - Cupressaceae	Cupressaceae indet. Cupressaceae indet. Gray 1822 cypress
Equisetopsida
Pinidae - Pinidae	Agathis sp. Agathis sp. Salisbury 1807