Regatta Point - Yolla Point, sand: Early/Lower Eocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Angiosperm informal indet. JJE cuticle
Group B, Parataxa CUT-Z-JJE
Angiosperm informal indet. JJA cuticle
Group B, Parataxa CUT-Z-JJA
Angiosperm informal indet. JEJ cuticle
Group C, Parataxa CUT-Z-JEJ
Angiosperm informal indet. JCA cuticle
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JCA
Angiosperm informal indet. JJH cuticle
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JJH
Angiosperm informal indet. JDH cuticle
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JDH
Monocot informal indet. GCE cuticle
Parataxa CUT-Mo-GCE
Angiosperm informal indet. JEA cuticle
Group C, Parataxa CUT-Z-JEA
Angiosperm informal indet. JAE cuticle
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JAE
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Lauraceae informal indet. DCG cuticle Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-L--DCG
Lauraceae informal indet. DCF cuticle Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-L-DCF
Lauraceae informal indet. DCI cuticle Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-L-DCI
Lauraceae informal indet. DDJ cuticle Jussieu 1789
Possible Endiandra sp.
Lauraceae informal indet. JBA cuticle Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-L-JBA
Lauraceae informal indet. GCG cuticle Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-L-GCG
Angiospermae - Aquifoliales - Aquifoliaceae
Aquifoliaceae informal indet. JJC cuticle Richard 1820
Parataxa CUT-Z-JJC
Aquifoliaceae informal indet. ACB cuticle Richard 1820
Parataxa CUT-Z-ACB
Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteaceae informal indet. EJF de Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-P-EJF
Proteaceae informal indet. EJG cuticle de Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-P-EJG
Proteaceae informal indet. EJE cuticle de Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-P-EJE
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Rhizophoraceae
Rhizophoraceae informal indet. JAG cuticle Persoon 1807
Parataxa CUT-Z-JAG
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podocarpaceae informal sp. A cuticle Endlicher 1847
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Agathis sp. cuticle Salisbury 1807
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Zamiaceae
Bowenia eocenica cuticle Hill 1978
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 (54.9-48.5 Ma; A.D. Partridge personal commun. in Pole and Macphail 1996).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wavy/flaser/lenticular bedding sandstone
Lithology description: Homogenous buff sand.
Environment:lacustrine deltaic indet.
Geology comments: Sand Flat.
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:167656
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Jaramillo
Modifier:C. Jaramillo
Created:2015-03-27 09:40:44 Last modified:2015-03-27 09:54:21
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-27 09:40:44
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]