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Pieman Dam, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Lat/Long (Decimal) | -41.7167,145.067 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Given Location | Tasmania, Australia |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Pieman Dam | Hill R. S. (1983) | Colhoun (1980) described this site as being more than 54000 years old, and he considered the sediments containing the rainforest pollen to be probably of last Interglacial age, although they may be older. | not reported | 0.126 - 0.0117 Ma Pleistocene |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Nothofagus sp. genus | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Fagales : Nothofagaceae : Nothofagus | 0.126 - 0.0117 Ma Pleistocene |
Eucryphia sp. genus | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Oxalidales : Cunoniaceae : Eucryphia | 0.126 - 0.0117 Ma Pleistocene |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!