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palynological zone (cf. Stover and Partridge 1973, Macphail and Hill 1994, Macphail et al.
1994).
Several competing International Time Scales are available. Two of the more widely used are
Haq et al. (1987) and Harland et al. (1990). The ages proposed for many Cretaceous and
Tertiary Epochs and Stages differ slightly from ages proposed by Chaproniere et al. (1996) in
the recently published AGSO Timescale (Young and Laurie 1996). The latter are adopted in
this study simply since they are based on Australian evidence.
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