Otway Basin (Geltwood Beach N°1 & F.B.H Port Campbell N°2) (Cretaceous to of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 142.1° E: paleocoordinates 68.8° S, 124.8° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unknown Formation, Albian to Albian (113.0 - 89.8 Ma)

• Dettroann & Playiord (1969) suggested a late Albian-Cenomanian to ?Turonian age

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• Marine influences are evident in much of the Late Cretaceous

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: M. E. Dettmann. 1973. Angiosperm pollen from Albian to Turonian sediments of Eastern Australia. Special publications of the geological Society of Australia (4)3-34 [C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina/P. Santamarina]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 163583: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 05.11.2014, edited by Carlos Jaramillo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Anthocerotidae - Anthocerotidae
Nyssapollenites
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Senectotetradites varireticulatus
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Phimopollenites
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Asteropollis asteroides
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Asteropollis asteroides Hedlund and Norris 1968
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Angiospermae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Phaeoceros "Nothylas type" Proskauer 1951 legume
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites "sp." Couper 1953
 Aquifoliales - Aquifoliaceae
Ilexpollenites indet. Thiergart 1937
 Chloranthales - Chloranthaceae
Magnoliopsida
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Rousea georgensis Dettmann 1973
Marchantiopsida
  - Marchantiidae
Hepaticae
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