Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.4° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° S, 32.3° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Agua de la Zorra Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)
• "The Agua de la Zorra Formation is characterized by deposition in a deltaic and lacustrine system"
Environment/lithology: basin reef; lithified, sandy, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: T.E. Pedernera , E.G. Ottone , A.C. Mancuso, C.A. Benavente, and F. Abarzua. 2019. Syn-Eruptive taphoflora from the Agua de la Zorra Formation (Upper Triassic) Cuyana Basin, Mendoza, Argentina. Andean Geology 46(3):604-628 [S. Devincenzi/S. Devincenzi]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210079: authorized by Susana Devincenzi, entered by Susana Devincenzi on 19.05.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Zuberia | |
| Zuberia zuberi | |
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Zuberia zuberi Frenguelli 1943 | |
| Johnstonia | |
| Johnstonia coriacea | |
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Johnstonia coriacea Johnston 1925 | |
| Polypodiopsida | |
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Neocalamites sp. Halle 1908 | |
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cf. Cladophlebis mesozoica Kurtz 1947 | |
| Ginkgoopsida | |
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Sphenobaiera sp. Florin 1936 | |
| Cycadopsida | |
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Taeniopteris sp. Brongniart 1828 cycads | |
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Cordaicarpus sp. Geinitz 1862 | |
| Gymnospermopsida | |
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Dicroidium odontopteroides Morris 1845
Xylopteris elongata Carruthers 1872 | |
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Rissikia media Tenison-Woods 1883 podocarp | |
| Pinopsida | |
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Heidiphyllum elongatum Morris 1845 | |