Where: Falkland Islands, South Atlantic (51.4° S, 60.7° W: paleocoordinates 51.5° S, 57.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 3.6 Ma)

• The preferred Middle? Miocene to Early Pliocene age limits are based on presence of the (now) mesotherm to typically megatherm genera Araucaria, Hedyosmum and Ovidia in a type of evergreen rainforest (podocarp-Nothofagus tall closed forest sensu Specht, 1970) that is now confined to relatively cool and uniformly wet climates in southern South America, New Zealand and Tasmania.

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•Halle (1911: 210−211) subdivided the Forest Bed into two units (layers) based on texture and organic content: Layer C and Layer D.

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified, massive, yellow claystone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected in 1996 and 1997

Collection methods: chemical, hydroflouric,

• Samples collected in 1996 and 1907 represent Halle's Layers c and d, respectively.

•Slides from Halle's original collection are housed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Stockholm).

Primary reference: M. Macphail and D. J. Cantrill. 2006. Age and implications of the Forest Bed, Falkland Islands, southwest Atlantic Ocean: Evidence from fossil pollen and spores. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (240)602-629 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169356: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 20.05.2015

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