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
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 172832: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 27.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Selaginella indet. Beauvois 1804 spikemoss | |
Isoetes indet. Linnaeus 1753 quillwort | |
Algae | |
Botryococcus "spores" Kutzing 1849 | |
Angiospermae | |
Goodeniaceae indet. Brown 1810 | |
Asteraceae "tubuliflorae" Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy | |
Coprosma indet. Forster and Forster 1775 coffee | |
Plantago indet. Linnaeus 1753 plantain | |
Chenopodiaceae "amaranthaceae minor 10P" Ventenant 1799 | |
Caryophyllaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 carnation | |
Haloragis "Gonocarpus" Forster and Forster 1775 | |
Haloragodendron "Glishrocaryon" Orchard 1975 water milfoil
Myriophyllum indet. Linnaeus 1753 water milfoil | |
Ranunculaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 buttercup | |
Proteaceae "undif.", Stirlingia "Conospermeae", Hakea "gemmate", Banksia "minor 30μm", Banksia "major 31μm", cf. Lomatia indet., Grevillea "Hakea"
Proteaceae "undif." de Jussieu 1789
Stirlingia "Conospermeae" Endlicher 1837
Hakea "gemmate" Schrader 1798
Banksia "minor 30μm" Linnaeus 1782
Banksia "major 31μm" Linnaeus 1782
cf. Lomatia indet. Brown 1810
Grevillea "Hakea" Brown and Knight 1809 | |
Cyperaceae "undif." Jussieu 1789 sedge | |
Restionaceae "undif." Brown 1810 | |
Poaceae indet. Barnhart 1895 grass | |
Amperea indet. Jussieu 1824 spurge | |
Pomaderris indet. Labillardière 1805 buckthorn | |
Cunoniaceae "3C" Brown 1814 | |
Acacia "equivalents" Miller 1758 wattle | |
Casuarinaceae indet. Brown 1814 | |
Nothofagus "Brassospora" Blume 1850 | |
Pimelea indet. Banks and Gaertner 1878 | |
Gyrostemonaceae indet. Endlicher 1845 | |
Winteraceae indet. Lindley 1830 magnoliids | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Myrtaceae "10/12micron", Myrtaceae indet., Corymbia "Angophora", Eucalyptus indet., cf. Melaleuca "Callistemon"
Myrtaceae "10/12micron" de Jussieu 1789 myrtle
Myrtaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 myrtle
Corymbia "Angophora" Hill and Johnson 1995 myrtle
Eucalyptus indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789 eucalyptus
cf. Melaleuca "Callistemon" Linnaeus 1767 honey-myrtle | |
Leucopogon indet. Brown 1810 | |
Monotoca indet. Brown 1810 heather | |
Myrsine indet. Linnaeus 1753 | |
Angiospermae | |
Sparganium indet. Linnaeus 1753 bur-reed | |
Triglochin "Typha" Linnaeus 1753 arrowgrass | |
Dacrycarpus indet., Microstrobos indet., Dacrydium indet., Podocarpus "Prumnopitys", Microcachrys indet., Phyllocladus indet., Podocarpidites sp.
Dacrycarpus indet. de Laubenfels 1969 podocarp
Microstrobos indet. Garden and Johnson 1950 podocarp
Dacrydium indet. Soland and Lambert 1807 podocarp
Podocarpus "Prumnopitys" L'Heritier and Persoon 1807 podocarp
Microcachrys indet. Hooker 1845 podocarp
Phyllocladus indet. Richard and Mirbel 1825 podocarp
Podocarpidites sp. Cookson 1947 podocarp | |
Cupressaceae indet. Gray 1822 cypress | |
Lycopsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Dicksonia indet. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1788 | |
Gleichenia indet. Smith 1793 | |
Polypodiaceae indet. Presl and Presl 1822 | |
Pteridium indet. Gleditsch and Scopoli 1760 | |
Cyathea indet. Smith 1793 scaly tree fern | |
Monolete | |
Monolete "psilate" Van der Hammen et al. 1973 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Monolites cf. alveolatus Couper 1969 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucaria indet. de Jussieu 1789 |