Where: Victoria, Australia (37.3° S, 143.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.4° S, 143.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• "The age of the Newer Volcanic basalts beneath which the resin specimen was found is presumed to range, at various localities, from mid-Pliocene to Holocene, and the flows about Allendale are not among the youngest of the volcanic suite. They might reasonably therefore be regarded as Pliocene or Pleistocene. On the other hand, the sub-basaltic fluviatile and lacustrine deposits, including the auriferous gravels, are not only older than the basalts but may in places be considerably older. A priori one can be no more specific with regard to the geological field evidence than to say that the resin was got from Tertiary or perhaps from Pleistocene lake or river deposits." (Hills, 1957). "Ligneous units overlying the deep leads and directly below the basalt yield Late Miocene and Pliocene ages" (Holdgate et al., 2006) Smeaton locality is Pliocene to Pleistocene. (Greenwood et al., 2000).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: amber

Collected in 1894

• Repository: Geology Department, University of Melbourne

Primary reference: V. V. Hickman. 1957. A fossil spider from Tertiary Retinite at Allendale, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 69:25-27 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147007: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2013

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