Banksia kingii

Banksia kingii is an extinct species of tree or shrub in the plant genus Banksia. It is known only from fossil leaves and fruiting "cones" found in Late Pleistocene sediment at Melaleuca Inlet in western Tasmania. These were discovered by Deny King in the workings of his tin mine. The climate was most likely as cool as or cooler than it is at Melaleuca now (an average yearly temperature of 11.5 °C, an average temperature of the coldest month of 4.5 °C, a mean maximum temperature of the warmest month of 20 °C), and possibly wetter, over 2400 mm annually. The leaves and fruiting cones were discovered at different locations, and since the sediment had been removed during mining, the stratigraphy of the fossils is unknown. The sediment from which they were recovered was alluvial, consisting of large, well-rounded fragments of quartz and schist. The fossil leaves are about 12 centimetres (4.7 in) long and 1 centimetre (0.4 in) wide and very thick and robust. They clearly belong to genus Ban......read more on Wikipedia.