Curanilahue - Peumo (Eocene of Chile)

Where: Decimortecera Región, Chile (37.5° S, 73.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° S, 63.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale and lithified, ferruginous claystone

• The plant bearing beds and the coal-seams seem at any rate to have been deposited near sea level, as indicated by the said intercalation of marine beds.
• Numerous fossil plants embedded in hard compact shale, whereas at Peumo north thereof the fossiliferous rock is a hard and ferruginous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original cellulose

Collected by P. Dusén in 1896

Primary reference: R. Florin. 1940. The Tertiary fossil Conifers of South Chile and their Phytogeographical significance. With a review of the fossil conifers of southern lands. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar 19(2):3-113 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/J. Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 153361: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 12.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

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 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podocarpus araucoensis, Podocarpus inopinatus
Podocarpus araucoensis Berry 1922 podocarp
Podocarpus inopinatus Florin 1940 podocarp