Where: New south wales, Australia (34.0° S, 151.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° S, 150.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Evidence for the age of the deposit comes from the palynological assemblages. The data are emphatic that the deposit falls within one palynological zone. The maximum and minimum age limits are Early Oligocene and Middle Miocene, based on Acaciapollenites myriosporites, Nothofagidites flemingii, N. goniatus, Tubulifloridites simplis and the absence of taxa which first appear in the Late Miocene, such as Amperea and Monotoca. However, the probable maximum age is Middle Miocene based on the ocurrence of varieties of Canthiumidites (al. Triporopollenites) bellus in the deepest samples boreholes DDH1 and DDH2.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: chemical
Primary reference: J. W. Pickett, M. K. Macphail, A. D. Partridgec and M. S. Poled. 1997. Middle Miocene palaeotopography at Little Bay, near Maroubra, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 44(4):509-518 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 168995: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 04.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Acaciapollenites | |
Pteridopsida | |
Matonisporites ornamentalis Partridge 1973
Monolites alveolatus Couper 1969 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Polypodiisporites sp. PotoniƩ 1931 | |
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
Psiladiporites | |
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Magnoliopsida | |
Rhoipites alveolatus Couper 1953
Haloragacidites harrisii Mildenhall and Harris 1971 | |
Cupressaceae indet. Gray 1822 cypress | |
Phyllocladidites mawsonii, Dacrycarpites australiensis, Lygistepollenites florinii, Microalatidites paleogenicus, Podocarpidites spp.
Phyllocladidites mawsonii Cookson 1947 podocarp
Dacrycarpites australiensis Cookson and Pike 1953 podocarp
Lygistepollenites florinii Stover and Evans 1973 podocarp
Microalatidites paleogenicus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989 podocarp
Podocarpidites spp. Cookson 1947 podocarp | |
Angiospermae | |
Proteacidites spp. Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
Ilexpollenites anguloclavatus McIntyre 1968 | |
Tricolporopollenites endobalteus McIntyre 1965 spurge | |
Nothofagidites emarcidus, Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus, Nothofagidites falcatus, Nothofagidites asperus
Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus Harris 1965
Nothofagidites falcatus Hekel 1972
Nothofagidites asperus Cookson 1958 | |
Casuarinidites cainozoicus Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
Cupanieidites orthoteichus soapberry | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Ericipites scabratus Harris 1965 heather | |
Equisetopsida | |
Dilwynites granulatus Harris 1965
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Latrobosporites marginis clubmoss | |
Concolpites | |
Concolpites leptos Stover and Partridge 1973 | |
Rubipollis oblatus | |
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Dinophyceae | |
Spiniferites spp. Mantell 1850 |