Pozo Peninsula Valdés es-1 (885-845 mbnm) (Paleocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (42.5° S, 63.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 52.3° W)

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Lower Danian

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous, muddy siliciclastic sediments

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, original silica, original sporopollenin

Primary reference: M. S. Estebenet Gonzalez, J. P. Perez Panera, E. L. Navarro, R. A. Astini, and M. V. Guler. 2020. Primera ingresión atlántica en Peninsula de Valdés: Bioestratigrafía, paleoambiente y paleoclima del Daniano. XXI Congreso Geológico Argentino more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 236766: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Antonio Pasini on 29.10.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dinophyceae
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 Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
Coccolithophyceae
 Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae
 Braarudosphaerales - Polycyclolithaceae
Micula staurophora Gardet 1955 coccolithophore
 Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae
Neocrepidolithus dirimosus Perch-Nielsen 1979
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Cruciplacolithus primus Perch-Nielsen 1977
Cruciplacolithus tenuis Stradner 1961
Markalius inversus Deflandre 1954
 Podorhabdales - Biscutaceae
Biscutum melaniae Górka 1957
Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Cordosphaeridium spp. Eisenack 1963
Hafniasphaera spp. Hansen 1977
 Gonyaulacales - Areoligeraceae
Senoniasphaera inornata Stover and Evitt 1978
Carpatella cornuta
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Carpatella cornuta Damassa 1988
Cervisiella
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Cervisiella sp. Hildebrand-Habel et al. 1999