Abstract
Twenty-seven angiosperm taxa and two conifers are described from the Van Diemen Sandstone of Melville Island, Northern Territory. The angiosperms include Brachychiloll, Grevillea, Melaleuca, and probable Cunoniaceae. The conifers are Araucaria and an unidentified genus of the Cupressaceae. Floristics and physiognomy suggest the climate was neither megathermal nor microthermal but that rainfall may have been seasonal. Two distinct assemblages are present, one from clay-rich mud, the other from sandier lithologies. The age of the Van Diemen Sandstone, which was probably deposited by a perennial sinuous river, is not known more precisely than Tertiary, but is suggested here to be Paleogene.
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