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Banksia strahanensis

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species, as the absence of leaf surface venation is thought to be an adaptation rather than a primitive state. Extinction was probably caused by the climatic and physical disruption of the Early Pleistocene
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have hairy undersides). Because of these differences, the fossils are considered a separate species. The species is believed to represent an extinct lineage; it is unlikely to be an ancestor of any extant
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were discovered in sediment at Regatta Point during the early 1980s. A formal description was published in 1991 by Gregory J. Jordan and Robert S. Hill, who named the species after the nearby town of
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on the upper leaf surface, whereas the fossil leaves appear not to. They are most similar to the leaves of
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and a number of other specimens are stored in the Department of Plant Science at the
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Extinct species of tree or shrub in the family Proteaceae known from western Tasmania
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Species from Pleistocene Sediments in Western Tasmania"
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Index

Pleistocene
Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Proteales
Proteaceae
Banksia
Banksia subg. Banksia
Banksia sect. Oncostylis
Banksia ser. Spicigerae
Binomial name
extinct
plant
genus
Banksia
fossil
Early
Middle
Pleistocene
sediment
Regatta Point
Tasmania
margins
B. spinulosa
Oncostylis
Spicigerae
veins

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