Regatta Point - Road cut: Early/Lower Eocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Angiosperm informal indet. JBB cuticle
Group A, Parataxa CUT-Z-JBB
Angiosperm informal indet. JEB cuticle
Group C, Parataxa CUT-Z-JEB
Angiosperm informal indet. JEA cuticle
Group C, Parataxa CUT-Z-JEA
Angiosperm informal indet. JEF cuticle
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JEF
Angiosperm informal indet. JJI cuticle
Group D, Parataxa CUT-Z-JJI
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Zamiaceae
Bowenia eocenica cuticle Hill 1978
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Araucarioides sp. cuticle Bigwood and Hill 1985
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Acmopyle glabra cuticle Hill and Carpenter 1991
Prumnopitys sp. cuticle Philippi 1860
Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteaceae informal indet. EJG cuticle de Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-P-EJG
Proteaceae informal indet. EJH cuticle de Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-P-EJH
Proteaceae informal indet. EJD cuticle de Jussieu 1789
Parataxa CUT-P-EJD
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: lignite
Environment:lacustrine deltaic indet.
Geology comments: Mangroves.
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:167664
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Jaramillo
Modifier:C. Jaramillo
Created:2015-03-27 11:06:29 Last modified:2015-03-27 17:08:38
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-27 11:06:29
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]