Where: New south wales, Australia (34.0° S, 151.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° S, 150.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Evidence for the age of the deposit comes from the palynological assemblages. The data are emphatic that the deposit falls within one palynological zone. The maximum and minimum age limits are Early Oligocene and Middle Miocene, based on Acaciapollenites myriosporites, Nothofagidites flemingii, N. goniatus, Tubulifloridites simplis and the absence of taxa which first appear in the Late Miocene, such as Amperea and Monotoca. However, the probable maximum age is Middle Miocene based on the ocurrence of varieties of Canthiumidites (al. Triporopollenites) bellus in the deepest samples boreholes DDH1 and DDH2.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: chemical
Primary reference: J. W. Pickett, M. K. Macphail, A. D. Partridgec and M. S. Poled. 1997. Middle Miocene palaeotopography at Little Bay, near Maroubra, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 44(4):509-518 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 168995: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 04.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Psiladiporites | |
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Equisetopsida | |
Dilwynites granulatus Harris 1965
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947 | |
Cupressaceae indet. Gray 1822 cypress | |
Microalatidites paleogenicus, Phyllocladidites mawsonii, Lygistepollenites florinii, Dacrycarpites australiensis, Podocarpidites spp.
Microalatidites paleogenicus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989 podocarp
Phyllocladidites mawsonii Cookson 1947 podocarp
Lygistepollenites florinii Stover and Evans 1973 podocarp
Dacrycarpites australiensis Cookson and Pike 1953 podocarp
Podocarpidites spp. Cookson 1947 podocarp | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Rhoipites alveolatus Couper 1953
Haloragacidites harrisii Mildenhall and Harris 1971 | |
Angiospermae | |
Nothofagidites emarcidus, Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus, Nothofagidites falcatus, Nothofagidites asperus
Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus Harris 1965
Nothofagidites falcatus Hekel 1972
Nothofagidites asperus Cookson 1958 | |
Casuarinidites cainozoicus Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
Tricolporopollenites endobalteus McIntyre 1965 spurge | |
Cupanieidites orthoteichus soapberry | |
Proteacidites spp. Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
Ilexpollenites anguloclavatus McIntyre 1968 | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Ericipites scabratus Harris 1965 heather | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Polypodiisporites sp. PotoniƩ 1931 | |
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Matonisporites ornamentalis Partridge 1973
Monolites alveolatus Couper 1969 | |
Acaciapollenites | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Latrobosporites marginis clubmoss | |
Dinophyceae | |
Spiniferites spp. Mantell 1850 | |
Rubipollis oblatus | |
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Concolpites | |
Concolpites leptos Stover and Partridge 1973 |