Where: Dukes County, Massachusetts (41.3° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 67.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• The bed containing sporomorphs is 0.3-0.6 m thick and has been glacially dislocated.
Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collected by C. A. Kaye; reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,
• Stored at the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va.
Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen. 1984. Stratigraphic, Paleoclimatic, and Paleobiogeographic Significance of Tertiary Sporomorphs from Massachusetts. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1308:1-35 [P. Jardine/H. Morck/H. Morck]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231825: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 18.09.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Osmunda sp. Linnaeus 1753 | |
Sphagnum | |
Sphagnum sp. Linnaeus 1753 peat moss | |
Angiospermae | |
Quercus sp. Linnaeus 1753 oak
Fagus sp. Linnaeus 1753 beech | |
Carya sp. Nuttall 1818 hickory
Momipites "spackmanianus complex" Wodehouse 1933 occurrence denoted by a question mark; probably Miocene but possibly reworked from the Eocene
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Alnus sp. Miller 1754 alder
Betula sp. Linnaeus 1753 birch | |
Tilia sp. Linnaeus 1753 linden | |
"Compositae "short spine"" = Asteraceae
"Compositae "short spine"" = Asteraceae Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy | |
Ilex sp. Linnaeus 1753 holly | |
Nyssa sp. Linnaeus 1753 tupelo | |
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Liquidambar sp. Linnaeus 1753 sweetgum | |
"Gramineae indet." = Poaceae
"Gramineae indet." = Poaceae Barnhart 1895 true grass | |
Pinopsida | |
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