Pinalerita UFP 18, Llanos foothills, Colombia (Paleocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (4.9° N, 73.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 60.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arcillas de el Limbo Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; mudstone and siliciclastic

• Environments range from bed-load channels to bay-head estuarine deltas.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: C. A. Jaramillo and D. L. Dilcher. 2001. Middle Paleogene palynology of Central Colombia, South America: A study of pollen and spores from tropical latitudes. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 258(4-6):87-213 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28566: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 19.02.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Proxapertites operculatus
Proxapertites operculatus Van der Hammen 1956
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Arecipites regio
Arecipites regio Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001 palm
n. comb.
Tetracolporopollenites
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Tetracolporopollenites transversalis