PL 1002 (Paleocene of Argentina)

Also known as Palacio de los Loros

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.9° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.4° S, 58.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Salamanca Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: W. C. Clyde, P. Wilf, A., R. L. Slingerland, T. Barnum, P. K. Bijl, T. J. Bralower, H. Brinkhuis, E. E. Comer, B. T. Huber, M. B. R. Ibañez-Mejia Jicha, J. M. Krause, J. D. Schueth, B. S. Singer, M. S. Raigemborn, M. D. Schmitz, A. Sluijs and M. C. Zamaloa. 2014. New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Río Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction recovery and land mammal age correlations. Geological Society America Bulletin 126(3-4):289-306 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172892: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 27.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales -
Ceratosporites equalis Cookson and Dettmann 1958 clubmoss
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Arecipites minutiscabratus Mc Intyre 1968 palm
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
Liliacidites vermireticulatus Archangelsky and Zamaloa 1986
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites communis Archangelsky 1973
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podocarpidites elegans Romero 1977 podocarp
Podocarpidites marwickii Couper 1953 podocarp
Pteridopsida
  -
Cyathidites patagonicus Archangelsky 1972
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
  - Gleicheniaceae
Clavifera triplex Bolkhovitina 1966
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Classopollis spp. Pflug 1953