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 | |
Crotonipollis sp., Myrtaceaeidites eucalyptoides, Myrtaceaeidites eugenioides, Myrtaceaeidites parvus, Myrtaceaeidites spp., Polypodiaceoisporties tumulatus, Quintinapollis psilatispora, Reevesiapollis reticulatus
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Equisetopsida | |
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947 | |
Psiladiporites | |
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Pteridopsida | |
Cyathidites paleospora Alley and Broadbridge 1992 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Polypodiisporites sp. PotoniƩ 1931 | |
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
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Angiospermae | |
Cupanieidites orthoteichus soapberry | |
Tricolporopollenites endobalteus McIntyre 1965 spurge | |
Casuarinidites cainozoicus Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
Nothofagidites falcatus Hekel 1972
Nothofagidites asperus Cookson 1958 | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Angiospermae | |
Tricolpites spp. Couper 1953 | |
Tubulifloridites simplis Martin 1973 daisy | |
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Cupressaceae indet. Gray 1822 cypress | |
Lygistepollenites florinii Stover and Evans 1973 podocarp
Podocarpidites spp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Microalatidites paleogenicus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989 podocarp | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Tetracolporites palynius, Rhoipites cissus, Malvacipollis subtilis, Ailanthipites paenestriatus, Haloragacidites harrisii, Tricolporites adelaidensis, Tricolporites microreticulatus
Malvacipollis subtilis Stover 1973
Haloragacidites harrisii Mildenhall and Harris 1971 | |
Canthiumidites bellus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989
Concolpites leptos Stover and Partridge 1973 |