Agathis jurassica White, 1981

Taxonomy

Conifer

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Araucariaceae
Genus: Agathis
Species: Agathis jurassica
Author Citation White, 1981

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Tithonian

Stratigraphy

Purlawaugh Formation

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Dimensions

Length: 14 cm
Width: 11 cm

Location

Talbragar
Phillip County
New South Wales
Australia

• agathis
• australia
• conifer
• gulgong
• jurassic
• nsw
• talbragar
• tff-oilshale-pfl2250
• tithonian
• wollemi pine

Comments

One of the common coniferous plant fossils found at the Talbragar site is Agathis jurassica. The genus Agathis is extant, representing a small group of some 21 species mainly distributed in Australasia, belonging to the same family (Araucariaceae) as Wollemia.

Together with a fishtail.

 

Key references:
 

White. M.E., 1981a. Fish beds reveal lush fossil forest. Australian Natural History 20 (7), 227-230.
 

White. M.E., 1981b. Revision of the Talbragar Fish Bed Flora (Jurassic) of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 33 (15), 695-721.

Woodward, A.S., David, T.W.E. and Pittman, E.F., 1895. The fossil fishes of the Talbragar Beds (Jurassic?), with a note on their stratigraphical relations. Memoir Geological Survey of New South Wales, Palaeontology 9, 1-27.
 

Frese M, Gloy G, Oberprieler RG, Gore DB (2017) Imaging of Jurassic fossils from the Talbragar Fish Bed using fluorescence, photoluminescence, and elemental and mineralogical mapping. PLoS ONE 12(6): e0179029. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0179029