Abstract

Abstract Fifty conventional core samples from the Ragley Lumber # 1 well located in Allen Parish Louisiana (Sec 29, T5S, R7W) were analyzed for palynomorphs. Dinoflagellate cysts, not considered to be recycled, were present in all samples along with abundant to very abundant pollen, spores and fungal spores. Dinoflagellate cyst abundances varied considerably from sparse ( 100 cysts per sample). Preservation also displayed considerable range, even within the same sample. Biostratigraphically useful taxa include: Adnatosphaeridium multispinosum, Apectodinium homomorphum, Areosphaeridium dictyoplokus, Deflandrea phosphoritica, Spinidinium sagittula, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, Muratodinium fimbratum, Palaeocystodinium golzowense, and Hafniasphaera septata. Other taxa described include: Achomosphaera alcicornu, Cleistosphaeridium diversispinosum, Cordosphaeridium inodes, Diphyes colligerum, Operculodinium centrocarpum, Polysphaeridium subtile, Trichodinium hirsuitum, and...

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