Impressions of fruits and leaves of angiosperms recovered from Landslip Hill near Gore, eastern Southland, include some showing features attributable 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.
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