Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (48.9° S, 72.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.3° S, 48.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kachaike Formation, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.9 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, massive shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original cellulose
Collection methods: chemical,
• Fossil specimens are deposited in the paleobotanical collection of the Argentinean Museum of Natural Sciences Bernardino Rivadavia (BA Pb and BA Pb Pm).
Primary reference: M. G. Passalia. 2007. Nuevos registros para la flora cretácica descripta por Halle (1913) en lago San Martín, Santa Cruz, Argentina. 44(3):565-595 [C. Jaramillo/J. Moreno/J. Moreno]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 150633: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Jessica Moreno on 12.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Gleichenites sanmartini Herbst 1962 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
cf. Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825 |