Angiosperm fruit and leaf fossils from miocene silcrete, landslip hill, northern southland, new zealand

Abstract

Impressions of fruits and leaves of angiosperms recovered from Landslip Hill near Gore, eastern Southland, include some showing featuresattributable to Corynocarpus, others that may belong to Avicennia, Pomaderris, and Pouteria as well as the already described Fagaceae and Casuarinaceae. These, along with araucariacean fossils, allow the reconstruction of a warm temperate Early Miocene vegetation in eastern Southland, which may have been coastal. © 2002 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.