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
Pteridopsida | |
Matonisporites ornamentalis Partridge 1973
Monolites alveolatus Couper 1969 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
unclassified | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Polypodiisporites sp. PotoniƩ 1931 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Latrobosporites marginis clubmoss | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Ericipites scabratus Harris 1965 heather | |
Angiospermae | |
Proteacidites spp. Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
Ilexpollenites anguloclavatus McIntyre 1968 | |
Tricolporopollenites endobalteus McIntyre 1965 spurge | |
Casuarinidites cainozoicus Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
Nothofagidites emarcidus, Nothofagidites falcatus, Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus, Nothofagidites asperus
Nothofagidites falcatus Hekel 1972
Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus Harris 1965
Nothofagidites asperus Cookson 1958 | |
Cupanieidites orthoteichus soapberry | |
Cupressaceae indet. Gray 1822 cypress | |
Podocarpidites spp., Microalatidites paleogenicus, Dacrycarpites australiensis, Lygistepollenites florinii, Phyllocladidites mawsonii
Podocarpidites spp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Microalatidites paleogenicus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989 podocarp
Dacrycarpites australiensis Cookson and Pike 1953 podocarp
Lygistepollenites florinii Stover and Evans 1973 podocarp
Phyllocladidites mawsonii Cookson 1947 podocarp | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Haloragacidites harrisii Mildenhall and Harris 1971
Rhoipites alveolatus Couper 1953 | |
Psiladiporites | |
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Acaciapollenites | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947
Dilwynites granulatus Harris 1965 | |
Concolpites | |
Concolpites leptos Stover and Partridge 1973 | |
Rubipollis oblatus | |
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Dinophyceae | |
Spiniferites spp. Mantell 1850 | |