Geilston Bay fossil site
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geilston-bay-fossil-site-198-13017929
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Geilston Bay fossil site
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The Geilston Bay fossil site is a paleontological site of Late Oligocene age in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. It lies within the suburb of Geilston Bay which, although it is a part of the municipality (city) of Clarence, is effectively a suburb of Hobart located on the eastern shore of the River Derwent. The Geilston Bay site is important as one of the few of its age to yield fossils of mammals from the Late Paleogene Period; at the time of their redescription in 1975, the mammal (marsupial
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Paleontological site in Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geilston_Bay_fossil_site
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2024-03-30T23:20:20Z
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