Ragley Lumber #D1 well - 10935ft (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Allen County, Louisiana (30.0° N, 92.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 34.5° N, 72.7° W (Wright 2013)

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Horizon sample from drill core. Gregory and Hart (1995a, pollen and spores) do not recognize the Clairbornian in the core, but in Gregory and Hart (1995, dinoflagellates), they do. Both papers look at the same samples from the same core and derive different age assignments because they treat each independently. RAL elected to enter a uniform age assignment for both papers.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; siltstone and shale

• ...due to a decrease in sediment supply in late Sabian, the style of deltaic sedimentation changed from fluvial-dominated to wave-dominated, shelf-edge deltas (Lowery 1987)
• 50 siltstone and shale samples used in the study by Gregory (1991)

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original chitin, original sporopollenin

Primary reference: W. A. Gregory and G. F. Hart. 1995. Distribution of pollen and spores in a subsurface marine Wilcox (Paleocene-Eocene) section in southwest Louisiana. Palynology 19:1-43 [R. Lupia/R. Vaughn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33762: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 07.08.2003, edited by Jason Cassara

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Chlorophyceae
  -
Pediastrum spp. Meyen 1829
Divisisporites
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 Coniferales -
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Taxodium spp. Richard 1810 cypress
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Magnoliopsida
  -
Angiospermae
 Proteales - Proteaceae
 Caryophyllales - Chenopodiaceae
Chenopodipollis spp. Krutzsch 1966
 Saxifragales - Altingiaceae
 Malvales - Bombacaceae
Bombacacidites spp. Couper 1960
 Fabales - Fabaceae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Cedripites
  -
Cedripites spp. Woodhouse 1933
unclassified
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Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodiumsporites spp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955 clubmoss
Algae
  - Zygnemataceae
Ovoidites spp. Krutzsch 1959
Pteridopsida
  -
Deltoidospora spp. Miner 1935
Leiotriletes spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Osmundacidites spp. Couper 1953
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Cicatricosisporites dorogensis Potonie and Gelletich 1933
  - Gleicheniaceae
Gleicheniidites spp. Dettmann 1963
  - Polypodiaceae
Microreticulatisporites
  -
Microreticulatisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Converrucosisporites
  -
Converrucosisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
unclassified
  -
Fungi "Fungal spore spp." Jahn and Jahn 1959
Dicellaesporites
  -
Monoporisporites
  -
Multicellaesporites
  -
Sigmopollis
  -
Sigmopollis spp. Hedlund 1965
Perotriletes
  -
Perotriletes spp. Reyre 1966
Tricolpopollenites
  -
Tricolpopollenites spp. Thomson and Pflug 1953
Quercoidites
  -
Quercoidites spp. Potonié 1960