Ragley Lumber #D1 well - 11835ft: Eocene, Louisiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
2 specimens
11 specimens
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
2 specimens
16 specimens
1 specimen
2 specimens
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
Algae - Zygnemataceae
Ovoidites spp. microspore Krutzsch 1959
1 specimen
Lycopodiopsida - Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodiumsporites spp. microspore Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
1 specimen
Magnoliopsida
2 specimens
Angiospermae - Liliaceae
Liliacidites spp. microspore Couper 1953
3 specimens
Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
3 specimens
38 specimens
Angiospermae - Gunnerales
Tricolpites hians microspore
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnipollenites verus microspore Potonie 1931
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
Momipites spp. microspore Wodehouse 1933
1 specimen
1 specimen
9 specimens
(Nichols and Ott, 1978)
Caryapollenites spp. microspore Potonié 1960
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Malvales - Bombacaceae
Bombacacidites spp. microspore Couper 1960
1 specimen
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinuspollenites spp. microspore Raatz 1938
23 specimens
Coniferales
33 specimens
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Taxodium spp. microspore Richard 1810
21 specimens
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podocarpus spp. microspore L'Heritier and Persoon 1807
1 specimen
unclassified
Converrucosisporites spp. microspore Potonié and Kremp 1954
2-9 category
Polypodiopsida - Schizaeales - Schizaeaceae
Cicatricosisporites dorogensis microspore Potonie and Gelletich 1933
9 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
1 specimen
Laevigatosporites spp. microspore Ibrahim 1933
14 specimens
1 specimen
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniaceae
Gleicheniidites spp. microspore Dettmann 1963
4 specimens
unclassified
Microreticulatisporites spp. microspore Potonié and Kremp 1954
1 specimen
Pteridopsida
Osmundacidites spp. microspore Couper 1953
1 specimen
Deltoidospora spp. microspore Miner 1935
16 specimens
Leiotriletes spp. microspore Potonie and Kremp 1954
3 specimens
unclassified
1 specimen
1 specimen
Schizosporis spp. microspore Cookson and Dettmann 1959
7 specimens
Chlorophyceae
Pediastrum spp. microspore Meyen 1829
7 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Louisiana County:Allen
Coordinates: 30.0° North, 92.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.5° North, 72.7° West (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval: Eocene
Age range of interval: 56 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wilcox
Local section:Ragley Lumber Well #D1 Local bed:-11835ft
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Horizon sample from drill core. Gregory and Hart (1995a, pollen and spores) do not recognize the Clairbornian in the core, but in Gregory and Hart (1995, dinoflagellates), they do. Both papers look at the same samples from the same core and derive different age assignments because they treat each independently. RAL elected to enter a uniform age assignment for both papers.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: 50 siltstone and shale samples used in the study by Gregory (1991)
Environment:deltaic indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Glacial or sequence phase:regressive
Geology comments: ...due to a decrease in sediment supply in late Sabian, the style of deltaic sedimentation changed from fluvial-dominated to wave-dominated, shelf-edge deltas (Lowery 1987)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:original chitin,original sporopollenin
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:33779
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:A. McGowan
Modifier:A. McGowan Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-08-07 07:55:03 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-07 07:55:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

4067. W. A. Gregory and G. F. Hart. 1995. Distribution of pollen and spores in a subsurface marine Wilcox (Paleocene-Eocene) section in southwest Louisiana. Palynology 19:1-43 [R. Lupia/R. Vaughn]