Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.2° S, 145.4° E: paleocoordinates 64.1° S, 152.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• Both spore-pollen and marine dinoflagellate assemblages from these beds are correlative with the mid- Ypresian or Planktonic Foraminiferal Zone P7 (Carpenter et al., 2007 ) (early Eocene; 52 – 51 Ma).

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; carbonaceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: chemical, hydroflouric

• The specimen was recovered from a new site on Lowana Road, Regatta Point, as part of a collection of fossil material made by G. J. Jordan in 2003.

Primary reference: R. J. Carpenter, G. J. Jordan, and R. S. Hill. 2007. A Toothed Lauraceae Leaf from the Early Eocene of Tasmania, Australia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168(8):1191-1198 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166741: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 24.02.2015, edited by Carlos Jaramillo

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