Regatta Point - Cool Store mud: Early/Lower Eocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Angiosperm informal indet. JAD cuticle
Pole 2007
Group A, Parataxa CUT-Z-JAD
Angiosperm informal indet. JJH cuticle
Pole 2007
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JJH
Angiosperm informal indet. JED cuticle
Pole 2007
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JED
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Agathis sp. cuticle Salisbury 1807
Pole 2007
Araucarioides sp. cuticle Bigwood and Hill 1985
Pole 2007
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Zamiaceae
? Pterostoma sp. cuticle Hill 1980
Pole 2007
Pterostoma hirsutus n. sp. cuticle Hill and Pole 1994
Bowenia eocenica cuticle Hill 1978
Pole 2007
Cycadopsida - Gnetales - Gnetaceae
Gnetaceae informal indet. GDB cuticle Lindley 1834
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-Z-GDB
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Lauraceae informal indet. DDC cuticle Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-L-DDC
Lauraceae informal indet. DCI cuticle Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-L-DCI
Lauraceae informal indet. DCF cuticle Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-L-DCF
Lauraceae informal indet. JBA cuticle Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-L-JBA
Lauraceae informal indet. DDJ cuticle Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Possible Endiandra sp.
Lauraceae informal indet. GCG cuticle Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-L-GCG
Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteaceae informal indet. EJG cuticle de Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-P-EJG
Proteaceae informal indet. EAA cuticle de Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-P-EAA
Proteaceae informal indet. EJE cuticle de Jussieu 1789
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-P-EJE
Angiospermae - Arecaceae
Arecaceae informal indet. JJG cuticle von Berchtold and Presl 1820
Pole 2007
Parataxa CUT-Mo-JJG
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podocarpaceae informal sp. A cuticle Endlicher 1847
Pole 2007
Podocarpaceae informal sp. C cuticle Endlicher 1847
Pole 2007
Prumnopitys sp. cuticle Philippi 1860
Pole 2007
Acmopyle glabra cuticle Hill and Carpenter 1991
Pole 2007
Dacrycarpus sp. cuticle de Laubenfels 1969
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:55.80000 - 48.60000 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 (54.9-48.5 Ma; A.D. Partridge personal commun. in Pole and Macphail 1996).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty,carbonaceous mudstone
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,peroxide
Maximum sieve size:5.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:167648
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Jaramillo
Modifier:C. Jaramillo
Created:2015-03-27 08:39:27 Last modified:2015-03-27 09:24:25
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-27 08:39:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

54693. R. S. Hill and M. S. Pole. 1994. Two new species of Pterostoma R.S. Hill from Cenozoic sediments in Australasia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 80(1-2):123-130 [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]