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Vegetable Creek - Witherden's Tunnel, New South Wales, Australia
Lat/Long (Decimal) | -29.45,151.6 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | based on political unit |
Given Location | New South Wales, Australia |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | New South Wales, Australia |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Vegetable Creek - Witherden's Tunnel | Hill R. S., Carpenter R. J. (1991) | M. K. Macphail (in Hill 1988) assigned the palynoflora from Witherden's Tunnel to the Late Eocene. | mudstone | 37.2 - 33.9 Ma Paleogene |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Dacrycarpus praecupressinus species | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Pinopsida : Pinales : Podocarpaceae : Dacrycarpus : Dacrycarpus praecupressinus | 37.2 - 33.9 Ma Paleogene |
Podocarpus witherdenensis species | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Pinopsida : Pinales : Podocarpaceae : Podocarpus : Podocarpus witherdenensis | 37.2 - 33.9 Ma Paleogene |
Lygodium dinmorphyllum species | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Schizaeales : Lygodiaceae : Lygodium : Lygodium dinmorphyllum | 37.2 - 33.9 Ma Paleogene |
References
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!