Zona del Rio Atuel (Cerro de La Brea, Arroyo La Chilca and Mina Transito) (Jurassic to of Argentina)

Also known as PGAP 497

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.0° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 29.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Sinemurian to Sinemurian (199.3 - 182.7 Ma)

• This age assigned by Stipanicic and Bonetti (1970a)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Herbst. 1964. La flora liasica de la zona del Rio Atuel, Mendoza, Argentina. Revista del Asociacion Geologica Argentina 19(2):108-131 [A. Rees/A. Rees/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29376: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

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Taxonomic list

• Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
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Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Clathropteris "sp. 1"
Clathropteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
  -
Cladophlebis "sp. 1", Cladophlebis "sp. 2", Cladophlebis "sp. 3", Cladophlebis "sp. 4"
Cladophlebis "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis "sp. 2" Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis "sp. 3" Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis "sp. 4" Brongniart 1849
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Neocalamites "sp. 1", Equisetites "sp. 1"
Equisetites "sp. 1" Sternberg 1833
 Marattiales - Marattiidae
Marattia "sp. 1"
Marattia "sp. 1" Swartz 1788
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Dictyophyllum "sp. 1", Dictyophyllum "sp. 2"
Dictyophyllum "sp. 1" Lindley and Hutton 1834
Dictyophyllum "sp. 2" Lindley and Hutton 1834
 Bennettitales -
Otozamites "sp. 1", Otozamites "sp. 2", Otozamites "sp. 3", Otozamites "sp. 4", Otozamites "sp. 5", Ptilophyllum "sp. 1", Pterophyllum "sp. 1"
Otozamites "sp. 1" Braun 1843
Otozamites "sp. 2" Braun 1843
Otozamites "sp. 3" Braun 1843
Otozamites "sp. 4" Braun 1843
Otozamites "sp. 5" Braun 1843
Ptilophyllum "sp. 1" Morris 1840
Pterophyllum "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus "sp. 1"
Elatocladus "sp. 1" Halle 1913 podocarp
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Pagiophyllum "sp. 1"
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris "sp. 1", Taeniopteris "sp. 2"
Taeniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 cycads
Taeniopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1828 cycads
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris "sp. 1"
Archangelskya
  -
Archangelskya "sp. 1"