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 33786: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 07.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Converrucosisporites | |
Converrucosisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954 | |
Microreticulatisporites | |
Microreticulatisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
Gleicheniidites spp. Dettmann 1963 | |
Cicatricosisporites dorogensis Potonie and Gelletich 1933 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Leiotriletes spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Deltoidospora spp. Miner 1935 | |
Angiospermae | |
Arecipites spp. Nichols et al. 1973 palm | |
Liliacidites spp. Couper 1953 | |
Triporopollenites "sp. 1" Pflug and Thomson 1953 | |
Margocolporites kruschii legume | |
Cupuliferoipollenites spp. Potonié | |
Platycaryapollenites platycaryoides, Caryapollenites "prodromus-imparalis type", Caryapollenites "sp. <29 micrometers", Caryapollenites spp., Momipites spp.
Caryapollenites "sp. <29 micrometers" Potonié 1960
Caryapollenites spp. Potonié 1960
Momipites spp. Wodehouse 1933 | |
Bombacacidites spp. Couper 1960 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Pinopsida | |
Piceapollenites spp. Potonié
Pinuspollenites spp. Raatz 1938 | |
Taxodium spp. Richard 1810 cypress | |
Podocarpus spp. L'Heritier and Persoon 1807 podocarp | |
Algae | |
Ovoidites spp. Krutzsch 1959 | |
Cedripites | |
Cedripites spp. Woodhouse 1933 | |
Divisisporites | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Lycopodiumsporites spp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955 clubmoss | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Pediastrum spp. Meyen 1829 | |
Schizosporis | |
Schizosporis spp. Cookson and Dettmann 1959 | |
Monoporisporites | |
Diporisporites | |
Diporisporites "sp. 1" Elsik 1968 | |
Inapertisporites | |
Inapertisporites spp. Hammen | |
Diporicellaesporites | |
Diporicellaesporites spp. Elsik 1968 | |
Fusiformisporites | |
Tricolpopollenites | |
Tricolpopollenites "sp. <20 micrometers" Thomson and Pflug 1953
Tricolpopollenites spp. Thomson and Pflug 1953 |