Cerro Funes (Paleocene of Argentina)

Also known as Pampa María Santísima, Pampa de María Santísima

Where: Chubut, Argentina (46.0° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.5° S, 58.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Río Chico Group, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• Paleocene?

•The author's consider the Cerro Funes flora as paleocene (Berry, 1937).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, sandy claystone

• The matrix is a rather friable, sandy, brownish clay.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1937. A Paleocene flora from Patagonia. In E.B. Mathews (ed.), Contributions to Paleobotany of South America, Studies in Geology (12)33-50 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167857: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 04.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• 11 species.
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Angiospermae
 Vitales - Vitaceae
Cissites patagonica n. sp.
Cissites patagonica n. sp. Berry 1937
 Malvales - Malvaceae
Sterculia acuminataloba n. sp.
Sterculia acuminataloba n. sp. Berry 1937 tropical chestnut
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Zizyphus chubutensis n. sp.
Zizyphus chubutensis n. sp. Berry 1937 buckthorn
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Fagophyllum duseni n. sp.
Fagophyllum duseni n. sp. Berry 1937
 Fagales - Myricaceae
Myrica premira n. sp.
Myrica premira n. sp. Berry 1937 bayberry
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum australis n. sp.
Dryophyllum australis n. sp. Berry 1937
 Violales - Flacourtiaceae
Banaraphyllum ovatum n. gen. n. sp.
Banaraphyllum ovatum n. gen. n. sp. Berry 1937
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Cryptocaryoides mariasantisimensis n. gen. n. sp., Laurophyllum chubutensis n. sp., Laurophyllum piatnitzkyi n. sp.
Cryptocaryoides mariasantisimensis n. gen. n. sp. Berry 1937 laurel
Laurophyllum chubutensis n. sp. Berry 1937 laurel
Laurophyllum piatnitzkyi n. sp. Berry 1937 laurel
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea aristolochiaformis n. sp.
Paranymphaea aristolochiaformis n. sp. Berry 1937 water lily