Punta del Barco Sur (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (48.3° S, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° S, 35.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Punta del Barco Formation (Baqueró Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified claystone and lithified, fine-grained, sandy sandstone

• Llorens, M. 2003a. Polen de angiospermas de la Formación Punta del Barco (Grupo Baqueró), Aptiano de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Ameghiniana Suplemento Resúmenes 40: 27R.

•Llorens, M. 2003b. Granos de polen de angiospermas de la Formación Punta del Barco (Aptiano), provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nueva serie 5: 235-240.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Reposited in the MACN

• The repository is located in the Paleobotany Division of MACN "Bernardino Rivadavia" under the acronym BA Pal No. 5500 to 5504 and 5550 to 5577 and in the collection of the Paleontological Museum Egidio Feruglio MPEF Palin 56 to 62.

Primary reference: M. Llorens. 2008. Estudio palinológico de la Formación Punta del Barco, Cretácico Inferior (Aptiano) de la provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Descripciones sistemáticas I: esporas monoletes y triletes lisas y cinguladas. Ameghiniana 45(1):153-166 [C. Jaramillo/J. Moreno/J. Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150516: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Jessica Moreno on 10.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Anthocerotidae - Anthocerotidae
Foraminisporis dailyi Dettmann 1963
Concavissimisporites
  -
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales -
Retitriletes douglasii Dettmann 1986 clubmoss
 Selaginellales -
Densoisporites corrugatus Archangelsky and Gamerro 1965 clubmoss
Polypodiopsida
  - Gleicheniaceae
Ornamentifera sp. Bolkhovitina 1966
Pteridopsida
  -
Todisporites sp. Couper 1958