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Vegetable Creek - Witherden's Tunnel, New South Wales, Australia

Lat/Long (Decimal)-29.45,151.6
Co-ordinates Derivationbased on political unit
Given LocationNew South Wales, Australia
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates)New South Wales, Australia

Collections

CollectionReferenceStratigraphic NameCommentsLithologyAge
Vegetable Creek - Witherden's TunnelHill R. S., Carpenter R. J. (1991)M. K. Macphail (in Hill 1988) assigned the palynoflora from Witherden's Tunnel to the Late Eocene.mudstone37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Dacrycarpus praecupressinus
species
Plantae : Tracheophyta : Pinopsida : Pinales : Podocarpaceae : Dacrycarpus : Dacrycarpus praecupressinus37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Podocarpus witherdenensis
species
Plantae : Tracheophyta : Pinopsida : Pinales : Podocarpaceae : Podocarpus : Podocarpus witherdenensis37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Lygodium dinmorphyllum
species
Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Schizaeales : Lygodiaceae : Lygodium : Lygodium dinmorphyllum37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

References

Hill R. S., Carpenter R. J. (1991) Evolution of Acmopyle and Dacrycarpus (Podocarpaceae) Foliage as Inferred from Macrofossils in South-eastern Australia, Australian Systematic Botany 4 3, 449-479 doi:10.1071/SB9910449
Rozefelds A. C., Christophel D. C., et al (1992) Tertiary occurrence of the fern Lygodium (Schizaeaceae) in Australia and New Zealand, Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 32, 203-222
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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