Also known as Cañadón Calcáreo Formation (Paleobotany)
Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.2° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 32.5° W)
When: Cañadón Calcáreo Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic to Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 100.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous siliciclastic sediments
•horizon crops out as the uppermost part of a thick
•sequence of the Cañadon Calcareo Formation. This unit is
•entirely terrestrial in origin, dominated by siliciclastic fluvial
•and lake deposits with several intercalated ash beds.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, original carbon, original cellulose, replaced with silica
Reposited in the MEF
Primary reference: I. H. Escapa, N. R. Cuneo, G. Rothwell and R. A. Stockey. 2013. Pararaucaria delfueyoi sp. nov. from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation, Chubut, Argentina: insights into the evolution of the Cheirolepidiaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174(3):458-470 [P. Wilf/E. Stiles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 200040: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Elena Stiles on 27.02.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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