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Leisman Number Jungle Creek 3 Thin Section

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Leisman’s Jungle Creek 3 (thin section)

Leisman Number: Jungle Creek 3

Repository Collection: Victoria Geological Survey–Department of Minerals and Energy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (now at Palaeobotany Collection, Museum Victoria), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (NMV-P)

Locality: OMNH-NL00000001 (used for tracking purposes only)

Associated Coal Ball: Not Applicable

OPC Coal Ball Peel the specimen came from: Not Applicable

OPC Slide containing the specimen: None. Specimen is P 187173, P 187174, or P 187175 at NMV-P (see confirmation)

OPC Specimen Number: None. Specimen is P 187173, P 187174, or P 187175 at NMV-P (see confirmation)

Specimen Category: Petrographic Slide? – Thin Section

Lot: No

Number in Lot: Not Applicable

Type Status: Syntype [1 of multiple thin sections that comprise Holotype]

Confirmation: Partial – NMV-P Online Database verified, see Specimens P 187173, P 187174, or P 18717

Identification: Cryptocaryoxylon gippslandicum Leisman 1986

Publications:

  • Leisman, Gilbert Arthur, 1986. Cryptocaryoxylon gippslandicum gen. et sp. nov., from the Tertiary of Eastern Victoria: Alcheringa, v. 10, no. 3-4, p. 225-234. doi: 10.1080/03115518608619157 [SNOMNH_Pbot-00000146] (link to our page on publication)

Figure Number of Specimen: Probably source of many of the figures however, publication does not explicitly list thin section they come from.

Notes: Transverse cut of petrified wood. Research that resulted in this paper was due to a sabbatical that Leisman took in Australia. Either Specimens P 187173, P 187174, or P 18717 at NMV-P.

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