Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (48.7° S, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 55.5° S, 45.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Piedra Clavada Formation, Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, massive, yellow, sandy sandstone and lithified, muddy mudstone
•Lake Cardiel is surrounded by several hills that emerge from a basaltic plateau.
•(see Ramos, 1982, for the description of the section).
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• The specimens are stored in the Paleobotanical Collection of the museum under catalogue numbers prefixed by BA Pb MEB.
Primary reference: L. Villar de Seoane and S. Archangelsky. 2008. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous megaspores from Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 29:354-372 [C. Jaramillo/J. Moreno]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150200: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Jessica Moreno on 04.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Striatriletes | |
Striatriletes reticulatus Sweet 1979 | |
Erlansonisporites | |
Erlansonisporites verrucatus Villar de Seoane and Archangelsky 2008 | |
Erlansonisporites sparassis | |
Erlansonisporites sparassis Potonié 1956 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Arcellites "sp. A" Miner 1935
Arcellites santacrucensis Baldoni 1987
Arcellites humilis n. sp. Villar de Seoane and Archangelsky 2008 |