Bathurst and Melville Islands (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Northern Teritorry, Australia (11.6° S, 130.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° S, 117.5° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Unknown Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• The samples were collected by Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd from southern coasta sections (see also Wright, 1963, Fig. 1)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, quarrying

Primary reference: M. E. Dettmann. 1973. Angiosperm pollen from Albian to Turonian sediments of Eastern Australia. Special publications of the geological Society of Australia (4)3-34 [C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina/P. Santamarina]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 163580: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 05.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Nyssapollenites
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Phimopollenites augathellaensis
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Phimopollenites
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Senectotetradites fistulosus
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Senectotetradites varireticulatus
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Cupuliferoidaepollenites
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Asteropollis asteroides
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Asteropollis asteroides Hedlund and Norris 1968
Dicotyledoneae
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Triorites "sp." Couper 1953
Triorites minor Couper 1953
Triorites punctulatus Dettmann 1973
Angiospermae
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites "sp." Couper 1953
Tricolpites minutus Singh 1971
Tricolpites cooksonae Dettmann 1973
 Chloranthales - Chloranthaceae
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
Magnoliopsida
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