NOTHOFAGUS PLICATA (NOTHOFAGACEAE), A NEW DECIDUOUS EOCENE MACROFOSSIL SPECIES, FROM SOUTHERN CONTINENTAL AUSTRALIA

Authors
SCRIVEN LJ MCLOUGHLIN S HILL RS
Citation
Lj. Scriven et al., NOTHOFAGUS PLICATA (NOTHOFAGACEAE), A NEW DECIDUOUS EOCENE MACROFOSSIL SPECIES, FROM SOUTHERN CONTINENTAL AUSTRALIA, Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 86(3-4), 1995, pp. 199-209
Citations number
52
Categorie Soggetti
Paleontology,"Plant Sciences
Journal title
Review of palaeobotany and palynology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00346667
Volume
86
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
199 - 209
Database
ISI
SICI code
0034-6667(1995)86:3-4<199:NP(AND>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
A new leaf species of Nothofagaceae, Nothofagus plicata, from southern and southwestern continental Australia is described. N. plicata has p licate vernation and is therefore considered to be a deciduous species . This provides the first macrofossil evidence for deciduous elements on mainland Australia in the Eocene, as well as the previously missing macrofossil evidence for Nothofagus forests which palynologists have suggested existed in this region at that time.