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. 2020 Apr 2;10:5703. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62252-z

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Map of Late Triassic to early Paleogene fossiliferous amber localities of Australia and Zealandia, Southern Pangea and Southern Gondwana. (1) Late Triassic: Fingal Coal Measures (Carnian Stage), Tasmania. (2) Late Cretaceous: Tupuangi Formation (upper Cenomanian of Chatham Islands), eastern Zealandia. (3) Late Cretaceous: Flaxman and Waarre formations of Victoria (Turonian Stage). (4) Early Paleocene: Barracouta-1 well, Latrobe Group, Gippsland Basin. (5) Early Eocene: Macquarie Harbour Formation, Strahan, Tasmania. (6) Late middle Eocene: A Group Coal Seam, Anglesea Coal Measures, Victoria. (7) Late Oligocene: Pomahaka, Southland, New Zealand⁹. (8) Early Miocene: three localities in Southland, New Zealand⁹. (9) Mio-Pliocene: Latrobe Valley Coal Measures, Victoria. (10) Uncertain aged (Paleogene or younger) pieces of amber from Cape York Peninsula (apparently float pieces). A.C.T. = Australian Capital Territory; P. = Period; S.A. = South Australia. Geochronological ages from⁴⁷. Map generated using Adobe Illustrator CC2018 (www.adobe.com) and derived from sketching the region from Google Earth (www.earth.google.com).