Where: Chubut, Argentina (44.8° S, 68.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° S, 57.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Salamanca Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; poorly lithified, fine siliciclastic sediments and poorly lithified, tabular, shelly/skeletal sandstone
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•Comer, E.E., Slingerland, R.L., Krause, J.M., Iglesias, A., Clyde, W.C., Raigemborn, M.S. and Wilf, P., 2015. Sedimentary facies and depositional environments of diverse early Paleocene floras, north-central San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. Palaios, 30(7), pp.553-573.
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•Clyde, W.C., Wilf, P., Iglesias, A., Slingerland, R.L., Barnum, T., Bijl, P.K., Bralower, T.J., Brinkhuis, H., Comer, E.E., Huber, B.T. and Ibañez-Mejia, M., 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. Bulletin, 126(3-4), pp.289-306.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, trace, original calcite, coquina
Collected by Ari Iglesias, Peter Wilf, Kirk Johnson; reposited in the MEF
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: N. A. Jud, M. A. Gandolfo, A. Iglesias and P. Wilf. 2017. Flowering after disaster: Early Danian buckthorn (Rhamnaceae) flowers and leaves from Patagonia. PLoS ONE 12(5) [P. Wilf/E. Stiles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 194844: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Elena Stiles on 01.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Angiospermae | |
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Nothiantha grandensis buckthorn
Suessenia grandensis Jud et al. 2017 buckthorn | |