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  • Erythrina vespertilio

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    By silcrete (edited)

    Taxonomy

    Bats Wing Coral Tree

    Kingdom: Plantae
    Phylum: Tracheophyta
    Class: Magnoliopsida
    Order: Fabales
    Family: Fabaceae
    Genus: Erythrina
    Species: Erythrina vespertilio

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Neogene
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Miocene

    Stratigraphy

    Cumborah Gravel

    Provenance

    Collector: Matthew Goodwin
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Location

    Grawin-Glengarry opal fields
    Walgett Shire
    New South Wales
    Australia

    Comments

    Image was published as figure 66 in "Silcrete plant fossils from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales: new evidence for climate change and monsoon elements in the Australian Cenozoic", Carpenter Raymond J., Goodwin Matthew P., Hill Robert S., Kanold Karola,Australian Journal of Botany. 2011 59(5). p.399.

     

    Specimen donated to the Australian Museum.

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    izak_

    Do you have an exact location for this specimen? The Walgett area is huge.

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    silcrete

    Only 22,000 square kilometres or so.  I added some more information that narrows it down a bit more.

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