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 169004: 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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Polypodiopsida | |
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Verrucatosporites sp. Pflug and Thomson 1953
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
Pteridopsida | |
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Dicolpopollis | |
Dicolpopollis sp. Pflanzl 1956 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947 | |
Lygistepollenites florinii Stover and Evans 1973 podocarp
Podocarpidites spp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Microalatidites paleogenicus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989 podocarp | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Haloragacidites harrisii, Tricolporites microreticulatus, Ailanthipites paenestriatus, Malvacipollis subtilis
Haloragacidites harrisii Mildenhall and Harris 1971
Malvacipollis subtilis Stover 1973 | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Angiospermae | |
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Ilexpollenites anguloclavatus McIntyre 1968 | |
Chenopodipollis chenopodiaceoides Truswell 1985 | |
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Proteacidites spp. Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
Casuarinidites cainozoicus Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
Nothofagidites emarcidus, Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus, Nothofagidites asperus, Nothofagidites falcatus
Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus Harris 1965
Nothofagidites asperus Cookson 1958
Nothofagidites falcatus Hekel 1972 | |
Cupanieidites orthoteichus soapberry | |
Rubipollis oblatus | |
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