Also known as Hydro-Electricity Commission, bore #5018 at 461 ft, Northeastern tip of Great Lake, Tasmania, New Town Coal Measures or equivalent

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.0° S, 147.0° E: paleocoordinates 67.6° S, 80.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Middle Triassic to Middle Triassic (247.2 - 201.4 Ma)

• Based on the flora, this site could be Rhaetic in age. Harris (1937) noted the similarity of the Tasmanian flora to that occurring in the Molteno beds of the Karroo System of South Aftica, the age of which is considered to be Middle Triassic.

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal and shale

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: coalified, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical, sieve,

• 100-mesh (approximately 150-micron mesh) copper sieve was used.

Primary reference: M. E. Dettmann. 1961. Lower Mesozoic megaspores from Tasmanian and South Australia. Micropaleontology 7(1):71-86 [R. Lupia/T. Naeher/T. Naeher]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33651: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Tiffany Naeher on 04.08.2003

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