Rio Negro Territory Site 176 (Oligocene to of Argentina)

Where: Rio Negro Territory, Argentina (34.0° S, 58.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.9° S, 53.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Oligocene to Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous siliciclastic sediments

• folded beds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1928. Tertiary fossil plants from the Argentine Republic. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 73:1-27 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31540: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 15.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Filicites
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Filicites sp. Brongniart 1828
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Myrcia nitens Engelhardt 1891 myrtle