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
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 | |
Pteris nirihuaoensis n. sp.
Pteris nirihuaoensis n. sp. | |
Filicites | |
Filicites sp. Brongniart 1828 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucaria nathorsti Dusen 1899 | |
Angiospermae | |
Fagus subferrunginea beech | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Myrcia nitens Engelhardt 1891 myrtle |