PILBARA Cracraft 1991

PILBARA Cracraft 1991

Available Names: 
Pilbara Cracraft 1991: 214.
Additional synonomies: 
Pilbara — Crisp et al. 1995: 460.
Area Taxonomy: 
TERRESTRIAL PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL AREAS
Sub-Realm: 
AUSTRALIA (de Candolle 1820)
Region: 
EREMAEAN Tate 1889
Sub-Region: 
PILBARA Cracraft 1991
Diagnosis: 
The area covering the Hamersley Ranges
Type-locality: 
Mount Mcrae, Western Australia, Australia, 22°16'60.00"S 117°34'42.00"E.

Cracraft (1991) correctly diagnosed the Pilbara as the “uplands of the Pilbara (Hamersley Plateau)”
(Cracraft 1991: 214) However, Cracraft included some parts of the Great Sandy desert bounded “to the west by the
Gibson Desert, and to the south by lowlands” (Cracraft 1991: 214). The embedded diagnosis clarifies that the subregion
is restricted to the area covering the Hamersley Ranges.

Map: 
Reference: 
Patterns of diversification within continental biotas: hierarchical congruence among the areas of endemism of Australian vertebrates

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith