Locality 0502, Montecristo Ubaté Coal Mine (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Cundinamarca, Colombia (5.2° N, 73.8° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 58.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Guaduas Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• "These sediments have been dated to be ca. 68–66 Ma based on palynological biostratigraphy (Correa et al., 2010) that has been calibrated using foraminifera (Muller et al., 1987)." (Martínez et al. 2015)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal

• "[The Guaduas] depositional sequence suggests paleoenvironments that ranged from a supratidal zone to coastal floodplains and swamps in lowland settings (Sarmiento-Rojas et al., 2006; Amaya et al., 2010) and occurred before the uplift of the northern Andes." (Martínez et al. 2015)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by M. Gutiérrez in 2005

• Repository: Museo de Historia Natural of the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Primary reference: C. Martínez, M. R. Carvalho, S. Madriñán and C. Jaramillo. 2015. A Late Cretaceous Piper (Piperaceae) from Colombia and diversification patterns for the genus. American Journal of Botany 102(2):273-289 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222725: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 22.10.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Piperales - Piperaceae
Piper margaritae n. sp.
Piper margaritae n. sp. Martínez et al. 2015 pepper
ANDES-Paleo-001 (holotype)