Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.2° S, 145.3° E: paleocoordinates 64.1° S, 152.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Malvacipollis diversus zone pollen zone, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• Sediments exposed around the edges of the harbour in road cuts and in quarries are placed in the Malvacipollis diversus Zone of Stover and Partridge (1973) with a most likely age of late Early Eocene.

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; carbonaceous mudstone and sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric

Primary reference: M. S. Pole and M. K. Macphail. 1996. Eocene Nypa from Regatta Point, Tasmania. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 92(1-2):55-67 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167646: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 27.03.2015

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