Rio Negro Territory Site 198 (Oligocene to of Argentina)

Where: Rio Negro, Argentina (41.0° S, 71.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° S, 65.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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 31543: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 15.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Scirpites sp.
Angiospermae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Leguminosites sp.
Leguminosites sp. Bowerbank 1840 legume
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Nothofagus simplicidens
 Sapindales - Anacardiaceae
? Anacardites patagonicus n. sp.
Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Pteris nirihuaoensis n. sp.
Phyllites
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Phyllites nirihuaoensis n. sp., Phyllites sp. n. sp., Phyllites mollinediaformis
Phyllites sp. n. sp. Brongniart 1822
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales - Zamiaceae
Zamia australis n. sp.
Zamia australis n. sp. cycads