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 (54.9-48.5 Ma; A.D. Partridge personal commun. in Pole and Macphail 1996).

Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; silty, carbonaceous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric, peroxide

Primary reference: M. S. Pole. 2007. Early Eocene Dispersed Cuticles and Mangrove to Rainforest vegetation at Strahan-Regatta Point, Tasmania. Palaeontologia Electronica 10(3):1-66 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167655: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 27.03.2015

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