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; sandstone
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 168999: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 04.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Acaciapollenites | |
Pteridopsida | |
Monolites alveolatus Couper 1969 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Polypodiisporites sp. PotoniƩ 1931 | |
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933
Verrucatosporites sp. Pflug and Thomson 1953 | |
Rugulatisporites mallatus Stover 1973 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Rhoipites alveolatus, Tricolporites microreticulatus, Parsonsidites sp., Ailanthipites paenestriatus, Haloragacidites harrisii, Malvacipollis subtilis
Rhoipites alveolatus Couper 1953
Parsonsidites sp. Couper 1960
Haloragacidites harrisii Mildenhall and Harris 1971
Malvacipollis subtilis Stover 1973 | |
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 | |
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Proteacidites spp. Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
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Tricolporopollenites endobalteus McIntyre 1965 spurge | |
Nothofagidites emarcidus, Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus, Nothofagidites flemingii, Nothofagidites falcatus, Nothofagidites asperus
Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus Harris 1965
Nothofagidites flemingii Potonie 1960
Nothofagidites falcatus Hekel 1972
Nothofagidites asperus Cookson 1958 | |
Casuarinidites cainozoicus Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
Margocolporites vanwijhei Germeraad et al. 1968 legume | |
Cupanieidites orthoteichus soapberry
Cupanieidites reticularis Cookson and Pike 1954 soapberry | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Herkosporites elliottii Stover 1973 spikemoss | |
Latrobosporites marginis clubmoss | |
Canthiumidites bellus | |
Canthiumidites bellus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989 | |
Rubipollis oblatus | |
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Dinophyceae | |
Operculodinium centrocarpum Wall 1967 |