Where: Off-shore, Bahamas (24.9° N, 73.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 39.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, calcareous sandstone and lithified, massive, black, argillaceous claystone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin
Collection methods: hydrochloric, hydroflouric, sieve
Primary reference: D. Habib. 1970. Middle Cretaceous palynomorph assemblages from clays near the Horizon Beta deep-sea outcrop. Micropaleontology 16:345-379 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 142274: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 07.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Concavisporites | |
Apiculatisporis | |
Apiculatisporis babsae Brenner 1963 | |
Triplanosporites sinuosus | |
Triplanosporites sinuosus Thomson and Pflug 1953 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Laevigatosporites ovatus Wilson and Webster 1946 | |
Gleicheniidites severus, Gleicheniidites lamontensis, Gleicheniidites triangulus, Gleicheniidites circinidites, Gleicheniidites senonicus, Gleicheniidites apilobatus
Gleicheniidites circinidites Dettmann 1963
Gleicheniidites senonicus Ross 1949
Gleicheniidites apilobatus Brenner 1963 | |
Appendicisporites tricornitatus Weyland and Greifeld 1953
Cicatricosisporites australiensis Potonié 1956 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Lycopodiacidites ambifoveolatus Brenner 1963 | |
Matonisporites equiexinous, Matonisporites impensus, Matonisporites "sp. A", Matonisporites excavatus
Matonisporites "sp. A" Couper 1958
Matonisporites excavatus Brenner 1963 | |
Endosporites | |
Endosporites "sp. A" Wilson and Coe | |
Taurocusporites segmentatus | |
Taurocusporites segmentatus Stover 1962 | |
Taurocusporites reduncus | |
Taurocusporites reduncus Stover 1962 | |
Bryopsida | |
Stereisporites antiquasporites Dettmann 1963 | |
Angiospermae | |
Monosulcites epakros, Monosulcites minimus, Monosulcites chaloneri, "Palmidites maximus" = Monosulcites (Palmidites)
Monosulcites epakros Brenner 1963
Monosulcites minimus Cookson 1947
Monosulcites chaloneri Brenner 1963
"Palmidites maximus" = Monosulcites (Palmidites) | |
Pinopsida | |
Tsugaepollenites dampieri Balme 1957 podocarp
Parvisaccites radiatus Couper 1958 podocarp
Platysaccus elizabethae podocarp | |
Hymenophyllumsporites | |
Alisporites | |
Alisporites bilateralis Rouse 1959 | |
Rugubivesiculites | |
Exesipollenites tumulus | |
Exesipollenites tumulus Balme 1957 | |
Gymnospermopsida | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariacites limbatus Habib 1969
Classopollis torosus Burger 1965 | |
"Spheripollenites psilatus" = Sphaeripollenites, Inaperturopollenites dubius
"Spheripollenites psilatus" = Sphaeripollenites
Inaperturopollenites dubius Thomson and Pflug 1953 | |
Foraminisporis dailyi Dettmann 1963 | |
Psilatricolpites | |
Psilatricolpites psilatus Potonié 1966 | |
Retitricolpites | |
Ginkgocycadophytus | |
Ginkgocycadophytus nitidus de Jersey 1962 | |
Cycadopsida | |
Eucommiidites troedssonii Potonié 1958 cycads | |
Sphenopsida | |
Calamospora mesozoica Couper 1958 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Vitreisporites pallidus Nilsson 1958 | |
Ephedripites multicostatus Brenner 1963 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Lycopodiumsporites clavatoides Couper 1958 clubmoss
Lycopodiumsporites austroclavatidites Potonié 1956 clubmoss | |
Camarozonosporites rudis Klaus 1960 clubmoss | |
Ostracoda | |
Discoidella hannae ostracod | |
Tricolpopollenites | |
Tricolpopollenites minutus Brenner 1963 |