I osmI podocttrps occur in Tertiary 

 brown coals »f Victoria (Cookson 

 ptj I'ikc I &53 ) and in buried soil 

 MM Hamilton, as recorded by C.ill 

 lj£64}. He found stumps of l'fi\Ilu- 

 ehrfuS) idettfified by H. D. Ingle, in 

 soil developed on l ower Pliocene 

 mar ,ne rocks and sealed oil' hv basalt, 

 nifl 'Icl.mgatuk site (Hamilton mili- 

 m „Kip 1 1 250,000 (S.J 54-71 Kl. 



is approximately 50 miles 

 ,r 0 km) north of the site near 

 Hamilton, but it shows no e\idcncc 

 nt basalt Hows or of marine IosmK 

 ii\ us sandy sediments, and no buried 

 soil htB feWW recorded there. The 

 sedimentary rocks a. ihe Iclangaluk 

 sift were mapped, provisionally m 

 I960, by Spencer-Jones as 

 "himtSS on Pal.icu/oic rocks, wmc- 

 inncs including gravel and sand". 

 ,-tmlwm' allotted to Plioecnc-Mioccnc 

 I VI age. The ecological survey map 

 of Victoria II: 1.000.000, ls><VT) 

 shows Pliocene sedimentary rucks al 

 (hi- locality, but docs not distinguish 

 rum-marine from marine sediments. 

 The podocarp specimen is terrestrial 

 Id origin md appears to be the sole 

 fossil ' recorded for the C aimv.oie 

 Jeposils near 1 clatlgatok In view of 

 die geological in formation, it is no: 

 older rh.in Pliocene. 



RtS leluiigaluk sue lies in a 

 tvnon containing widespread evidence 

 ot noith-south-trendme ndges con- 

 sisiing of sandy sediments which near 

 the surface occur as ferruginous 

 sandstone Features of these ridges 

 suggest that thev were formed a I 

 im Imes (Blackburn. Bond, and 



Clarke l°ai7). The patiein of ridges 

 in the Tclangaluk East district is not 

 distinctive — there arc gaps associated 

 with valleys ot the Cjlcnelg Ri\er 

 system — and the podocarp specimen 

 svas not embedded in an unmistak- 

 able portion of a ridge. The specimen 

 therefore fails \p provide evidence 

 on the origin of the ridges — one of 

 the main reasons tot interest in U- 

 but knowledge of its discovery and 

 botanical features may be useful to 

 others with opportunities tor collect- 

 ing in the region. The podocarp root 

 is one of the terrestrial tossils found 

 in western Victoria in materials 

 which generally show no organic 

 remains — others include a fossil ioi- 

 ioi.se and a feather found in lateritic 

 ironstone from Carapook anil Redruth 

 I Gill I'm5). 



Hi i i iirrsos 



Blaekhurn. O . Bond. R. O. and Clarke. 

 A K P. il%7l. BOfl 'Icvelopmcnl in 

 relation to stianiteil btach ridges in 

 Count v Inwan. Victoria. tMKU 

 \„st Soil PuM. No. 14 



( ookson. I. C. and Pike. K. M. ( tfp\. 

 Tlie Tertiary occurrence an<l ittsln 

 bulion of PoilmiVl'ii^ fStCttCW na.rv- 

 carpus I in Australia and IaMiuma 

 AuM. J, P«t. It 71-82. 



tilllt B. D. ( 1-164 ). Kixks contiguous 

 with the basaluc cuirass of v-ctein 

 VitUirta. free. R„\. S,k: IV 77: 

 331-355. 



C.ill, F.. 13. (19651 Palncontoloiis ot 

 Victoria, pp. I 24 in Victorian Near 

 Book No, 79. 



KrapJAJ P- J • and Kozlnwski. T. T 

 11960), •PliVMolofv oil Trees" (Mc- 

 Graw-Hill N.V.I 



spencer-Jones. D. r 1*0.1, The tJ*6J«0 

 ,ind structure Of the Ciramnians area, 

 western Victoria. Mem ficol. Surv. 



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