Little Bay - DDH3:21.7 m (Miocene of Australia)

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 169000: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 04.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Psiladiporites
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Psiladiporites sp. Varma and Rawat 1963
Psiladiporites (Alyxia) sp.
Pteridopsida
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Cyathidites australis Couper 1953
Cyathidites australis/minor
Cyathidites paleospora Alley and Broadbridge 1992
Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Polypodiisporites sp. PotoniƩ 1931
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
  - Polypodiaceae
  - Osmundaceae
Rugulatisporites cowrensis
Rugulatisporites sp. cf. R. cowrensis
Angiospermae
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 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
 Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Casuarinidites cainozoicus Cookson and Pike 1954
 Fagales -
Nothofagidites emarcidus
Nothofagidites emarcidus/heterus
Nothofagidites asperus Cookson 1958
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Sapotaceae
Angiospermae
 Gunnerales -
 Asterales - Asteraceae
Tubulifloridites simplis Martin 1973 daisy
 Santalales - Loranthaceae
Gothanipollis gothanii mistletoe
Gothanipollis sp. cf. G. gothanii
 Proteales - Proteaceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Cupressaceae indet. Gray 1822 cypress
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Lygistepollenites florinii Stover and Evans 1973 podocarp
Podocarpidites spp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Microalatidites paleogenicus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989 podocarp
Magnoliopsida
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 Life -
Canthiumidites bellus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989
Concolpites leptos Stover and Partridge 1973