Where: Allen County, Louisiana (30.0° N, 92.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 81.0° W)
When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Horizon sample from drill core. Gregory and Hart (1995a, pollen and spores) do not recognize the Clairbornian in the core, but in Gregory and Hart (1995, dinoflagellates), they do. Both papers look at the same samples from the same core and derive different age assignments because they treat each independently. RAL elected to enter a uniform age assignment for both papers.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; siltstone and shale
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original chitin, original sporopollenin
Primary reference: W. A. Gregory and G. F. Hart. 1995. Distribution of pollen and spores in a subsurface marine Wilcox (Paleocene-Eocene) section in southwest Louisiana. Palynology 19:1-43 [R. Lupia/R. Vaughn]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33762: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 07.08.2003, edited by Jason Cassara
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Monoporisporites | |
Monoporisporites spp. Hammen | |
Multicellaesporites | |
Multicellaesporites spp. Elsik | |
Dicellaesporites | |
Dicellaesporites spp. Elsik | |
Sigmopollis | |
Sigmopollis spp. Hedlund 1965 | |
unclassified | |
Cedripites | |
Cedripites spp. Woodhouse 1933 | |
Algae | |
Ovoidites spp. Krutzsch 1959 | |
Divisisporites | |
Angiospermae | |
Bombacacidites spp. Couper 1960 | |
Margocolporites kruschii legume | |
Cupuliferoipollenites spp. Potonié | |
Momipites spp. Wodehouse 1933 | |
Triporopollenites "sp. 1" Pflug and Thomson 1953 | |
Liquidambarpollenites spp. Raatz 1937 | |
Chenopodipollis spp. Krutzsch 1966 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Taxodium spp. Richard 1810 cypress | |
Pinopsida | |
Pinuspollenites spp. Raatz 1938 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Lycopodiumsporites spp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955 clubmoss | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Verrucatosporites spp. Pflug and Thomson 1953
Polypodium spp. Linnaeus 1753
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
Gleicheniidites spp. Dettmann 1963 | |
Cicatricosisporites dorogensis Potonie and Gelletich 1933
Undulatisporites spp. Pflug 1953 | |
Microreticulatisporites | |
Microreticulatisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Deltoidospora spp. Miner 1935
Leiotriletes spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Osmundacidites spp. Couper 1953 | |
Converrucosisporites | |
Converrucosisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Pediastrum spp. Meyen 1829 | |
Perotriletes | |
Perotriletes spp. Reyre 1966 | |
Tricolpopollenites | |
Tricolpopollenites spp. Thomson and Pflug 1953 | |
Quercoidites | |
Quercoidites spp. Potonié 1960 |