Locharbour (Eocene to of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (40.9° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 61.1° S, 150.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (48.6 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

• Lens of laminated siltstone in gravel exposed in a tin mine. The siltstone is consistent with a cut-off channel in a braided stream deposit.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: G. J. Jordan and M. K. Macphail. 2003. A Middle-Late Eocene inflorescence of Caryophyllaceae from Tasmania, Australia. American Journal of Botany 90:761-768 [H. Wang/M. Arakaki/M. Arakaki]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31570: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Monica Arakaki on 16.05.2003

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Caryophyllales - Caryophyllaceae
Caryophylloflora paleogenica n. gen. n. sp. Jordan and Macphail 2003 carnation