Where: Allen County, Louisiana (30.0° N, 92.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 81.0° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wilcox Group, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• 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.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; siltstone and shale
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original chitin, original sporopollenin
Collection methods: core, chemical,
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33773: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 07.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Monoporisporites | |
Monoporisporites spp. Hammen | |
Cedripites | |
Cedripites spp. Woodhouse 1933 | |
Algae | |
Ovoidites spp. Krutzsch 1959 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Ephedripites spp. Bolkhovitina and Potonié 1958 | |
Divisisporites | |
Angiospermae | |
Bombacacidites spp. Couper 1960 | |
Margocolporites kruschii legume | |
Tricolporopollenites spp. Thomson and Pflug 1953 spurge | |
Cupuliferoipollenites spp. Potonié | |
Pterocaryapollenites spp. Thiergart
Momipites spp. Wodehouse 1933 | |
Triporopollenites "sp. 1" Pflug and Thomson 1953 | |
Liliacidites spp. Couper 1953 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Taxodium spp. Richard 1810 cypress | |
Pinopsida | |
Pinuspollenites spp. Raatz 1938 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Gleicheniidites spp. Dettmann 1963 | |
Cicatricosisporites dorogensis Potonie and Gelletich 1933 | |
Microreticulatisporites | |
Microreticulatisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Deltoidospora spp. Miner 1935
Leiotriletes spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Osmundacidites spp. Couper 1953 | |
Converrucosisporites | |
Converrucosisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Pediastrum spp. Meyen 1829 | |
Schizosporis | |
Schizosporis spp. Cookson and Dettmann 1959 | |
Tricolpopollenites | |
Tricolpopollenites spp. Thomson and Pflug 1953 | |
Trudopollis | |
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Quercoidites | |
Quercoidites spp. Potonié 1960 |