Regatta Point - Railway Cutting: Early/Lower Eocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Monocot informal indet. GCE cuticle
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-Mo-GCE
Angiosperm informal indet. JAA cuticle
Pole 2007
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JAA
Angiosperm informal indet. JAE cuticle
Pole 2007
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JAE
Angiosperm informal indet. JEE cuticle
Pole 2007
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JEE
Angiosperm informal indet. JBH cuticle
Pole 2007
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JBH
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Araucarioides sp. cuticle Bigwood and Hill 1985
Pole 2007
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Zamiaceae
Bowenia eocenica cuticle Hill 1978
Pole 2007
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Rhizophoraceae
Rhizophoraceae informal indet. JAG cuticle Persoon 1807
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-Z-JAG
Angiospermae - Aquifoliales - Aquifoliaceae
Aquifoliaceae informal indet. ACB cuticle Richard 1820
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-Z-ACB
Angiospermae - Arecaceae
Nypa australis n. sp. multi organs, seed/fruit Pole and Macphail 1996
Several cuticles of leaves and fruits
Arecipites sp. microspore Nichols et al. 1973
Spinizonocolpites prominatus microspore
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Lauraceae informal indet. DCG cuticle Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-Z-DCG
Lauraceae informal indet. DCD cuticle Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-Z-DCD
Lauraceae informal indet. DCF cuticle Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-Z-DCF
Magnoliopsida
Haloragacidites harrisii microspore Mildenhall and Harris 1971
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podocarpidites spp. microspore
Acmopyle glabra cuticle Hill and Carpenter 1991
Pole 2007
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Tasmania
Coordinates: 42.2° South, 145.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:64.1° South, 152.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene Pollen zone: Malvacipollis diversus zone
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Sediments exposed around the edges of the harbour in road cuts and in quarries are placed in the Malvacipollis diversus Zone of Stover and Partridge (1973) with a most likely age of late Early Eocene.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: carbonaceous mudstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Environment:fluvial-deltaic indet.
Geology comments: It may have been deposited as a tidal bar at the mouth of an estuary (Pole & Macphail, 1996).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:chemical,hydrochloric,hydroflouric
Maximum sieve size:5.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:167646
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Jaramillo
Modifier:C. Jaramillo
Created:2015-03-27 08:11:30 Last modified:2015-03-27 09:01:52
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-27 08:11:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
54694. M. S. Pole and M. K. Macphail. 1996. Eocene Nypa from Regatta Point, Tasmania. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 92(1-2):55-67 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]

Secondary references:

54740 M. S. Pole. 2007. Early Eocene Dispersed Cuticles and Mangrove to Rainforest vegetation at Strahan-Regatta Point, Tasmania. Palaeontologia Electronica 10(3):1-66 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]