S-1 (0-100 cm) (Pleistocene of Australia)

Also known as Stony Creek Basin

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.6° S, 144.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° S, 144.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Between 1.555 & 1.835 Ma.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; unlithified, massive, black, green, silty claystone and sandy siltstone

• Small paleolake (<10 ha)
• organic-rich, silty clay sediment.

Size class: microfossils

• Plant macrofossils and insects.

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected in 2000

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric, sieve

• c. 40-m-long sediment core.

Primary reference: J. M. K. Sniderman. 2011. Early Pleistocene vegetation change in upland south-eastern Australia. Journal of Biogeography 38(8):1456-1470 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172830: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 27.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Trilete indet.
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Selaginella indet.
Selaginella indet. Beauvois 1804 spikemoss
 Isoetales - Isoetaceae
Isoetes indet.
Isoetes indet. Linnaeus 1753 quillwort
Magnoliopsida
  -
Rhoipites alveolatus
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae indet., Eucalyptus indet., Eucalyptus "spathulata type"
Myrtaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 myrtle
Eucalyptus indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789 eucalyptus
Eucalyptus "spathulata type" L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789 eucalyptus
 Ericales - Ericaceae
Ericaceae "undif."
Ericaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 heather
 Ericales - Symplocaceae
Symplocos indet.
Symplocos indet. Jacquin 1760 sweetleaf
 Primulales - Myrsinaceae
Myrsine indet.
Myrsine indet. Linnaeus 1753
Angiospermae
 Alismatales - Juncaginaceae
Triglochin "Typha"
Triglochin "Typha" Linnaeus 1753 arrowgrass
 Poales - Restionaceae
Restionaceae "undif."
 Poales - Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae "undif."
Cyperaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 sedge
 Poales - Poaceae
Poaceae indet.
Poaceae indet. Barnhart 1895 grass
 Proteales -
Beauprea indet.
Beauprea indet. Brongniart and Gris 1871
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteaceae "undif.", Banksia "minor 31 μm", Hakea "gemmate"
Proteaceae "undif." de Jussieu 1789
Banksia "minor 31 μm" Linnaeus 1782
Hakea "gemmate" Schrader 1798
 Caryophyllales - Chenopodiaceae
Chenopodiaceae "Amaranthaceae minor 10P"
 Lamiales - Plantaginaceae
Plantago indet.
Plantago indet. Linnaeus 1753 plantain
 Aquifoliales - Aquifoliaceae
Ilex indet.
Ilex indet. Linnaeus 1753 holly
 Asterales - Asteraceae
Asteraceae "tubuliflorae"
Asteraceae "tubuliflorae" Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy
 Saxifragales - Haloragaceae
Myriophyllum indet.
Myriophyllum indet. Linnaeus 1753 water milfoil
 Saxifragales -
Haloragis "Gonocarpus"
Haloragis "Gonocarpus" Forster and Forster 1775
 Canellales - Winteraceae
Winteraceae indet.
Winteraceae indet. Lindley 1830 magnoliids
 Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Casuarinaceae indet.
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Nothofagus "Brassospora", Nothofagus "Lophozonia"
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Amperea indet.
Amperea indet. Jussieu 1824 spurge
 Malpighiales - Clusiaceae
cf. Garcinia cuspidata
 Oxalidales - Elaeocarpaceae
Elaeocarpus indet.
Elaeocarpus indet. Linnaeus 1753
 Oxalidales - Cunoniaceae
Cunoniaceae "3C"
Cunoniaceae "3C" Brown 1814
 Brassicales - Gyrostemonaceae
Gyrostemonaceae indet.
Gyrostemonaceae indet. Endlicher 1845
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Dacrydium indet., Podocarpus "Prumnopitys", Podocarpidites sp., Phyllocladus indet., Dacrycarpus indet.
Dacrydium indet. Soland and Lambert 1807 podocarp
Podocarpus "Prumnopitys" L'Heritier and Persoon 1807 podocarp
Podocarpidites sp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Phyllocladus indet. Richard and Mirbel 1825 podocarp
Dacrycarpus indet. de Laubenfels 1969 podocarp
Lycopsida
  -
cf. Foveotriletes balteus
Monolete
  -
Monolete "psilate"
Monolete "psilate" Van der Hammen et al. 1973
Pteridopsida
  -
Monolites cf. alveolatus
Polypodiopsida
  - Gleicheniaceae
Gleichenia indet.
Gleichenia indet. Smith 1793
  - Dicksoniaceae
Dicksonia indet., Calochlaena "Culcita", Lophosoria indet.
Dicksonia indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1788
Calochlaena "Culcita" Turner and White 1988
Lophosoria indet. Presl 1847
  - Osmundaceae
Baculatisporites disconformis
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Cyathea indet.
Cyathea indet. Smith 1793 scaly tree fern
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
cf. Lygodium indet.
cf. Lygodium indet. Swartz 1800 climbing fern
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Pteridium indet.
Pteridium indet. Gleditsch and Scopoli 1760
  - Polypodiaceae
Polypodiaceae indet.
Polypodiaceae indet. Presl and Presl 1822
Algae
  - Botryococcaceae
Botryococcus "spores"
Botryococcus "spores" Kutzing 1849
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucariaceae indet., Araucaria indet.
Araucariaceae indet. Henckel and Hochstetter 1865
Araucaria indet. de Jussieu 1789