Regatta Point - Cool Store clay: Early/Lower Eocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Angiosperm informal indet. JED cuticle
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| Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JED | ||||||||||
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Equisetopsida
- Araucariaceae
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Agathis sp. cuticle
Salisbury 1807
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Araucarioides sp. cuticle
Bigwood and Hill 1985
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Araucaria informal sp. A cuticle
de Jussieu 1789
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Cycadopsida
- Cycadales
- Zamiaceae
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Bowenia eocenica cuticle
Hill 1978
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Angiospermae
- Fagales
- Casuarinaceae
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Gymnostoma sp. cuticle
Johnson 1980
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Coniferales
- Podocarpaceae
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Acmopyle glabra cuticle
Hill and Carpenter 1991
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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 (54.9-48.5 Ma; A.D. Partridge personal commun. in Pole and Macphail 1996). |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray claystone |
| Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: It may have been deposited as a tidal bar at the mouth of an estuary (Pole & Macphail, 1996).Mangroves (Pole, 2007). | |
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: | 167653 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | C. Jaramillo |
| Created: | 2015-03-27 09:26:15 | Last modified: | 2015-03-27 09:26:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-03-27 09:26:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |