Ragley Lumber #D1 well - 14914ft (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Allen County, Louisiana (30.0° N, 92.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 81.0° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wilcox Group, 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

• ...due to a decrease in sediment supply in late Sabian, the style of deltaic sedimentation changed from fluvial-dominated to wave-dominated, shelf-edge deltas (Lowery 1987)
• 50 siltstone and shale samples used in the study by Gregory (1991)

Preservation: original chitin, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical,

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 33840: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 07.08.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Monoporisporites
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Diporicellaesporites
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Dicellaesporites
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Inapertisporites
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Schizosporis
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Schizosporis spp. Cookson and Dettmann 1959
Chlorophyceae
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Pediastrum spp. Meyen 1829
Pteridopsida
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Osmundacidites spp. Couper 1953
Converrucosisporites
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Converrucosisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Microreticulatisporites
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Microreticulatisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Cicatricosisporites dorogensis Potonie and Gelletich 1933
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodiumsporites spp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955 clubmoss
Hamulatisporites spp. Nakoman 1966 clubmoss
unclassified
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 Coniferales -
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Taxodium spp. Richard 1810 cypress
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podocarpus spp. L'Heritier and Persoon 1807 podocarp
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Magnoliopsida
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Angiospermae
 Proteales - Proteaceae
 Gunnerales -
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
Liliacidites spp. Couper 1953
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Arecipites spp. Nichols et al. 1973 palm
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnipollenites verus Potonie 1931 birch
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Algae
  - Zygnemataceae
Ovoidites spp. Krutzsch 1959
Tricolpopollenites
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Tricolpopollenites spp. Thomson and Pflug 1953