Where: Victoria, Australia (38.4° S, 144.2° E: paleocoordinates 59.8° S, 144.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Lower and Middle Nothofagus asperus pollen zone, Eastern View Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• the clay lenses are placed, based on diagnostic taxa which begin their stratigraphic range, at the base of the Triorites magnificus Zone, at or about that point which corresponds to the boundary of the Lower and Middle N. asperus Zone of late Middle Eocene age. The coal is of a Middle Eocene

•age.

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lenticular claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

• Compressions or mummified leaves.

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: chemical

• Palynomorphs: slides were scanned until 200 spores and pollen grains were counted.

Primary reference: D. C. Christophel, W. K. Harris, and A. K. Syber. 1987. The Eocene flora of the Anglesea Locality, Victoria. Alcheringa 11(4):303-323 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167109: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 07.03.2015

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