Rio Amonea collection, Acre (Miocene to of Brazil)

Where: Acre, Brazil (10.0° S, 45.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° S, 42.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty claystone

• brownish, plastic, silty clay wth finely disseminated carbonaceous matter and small pockets of vivianite.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, permineralized

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1937. Late Tertiary plants from the territory of Acre, Brazil. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology 12:81-90 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31670: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 21.05.2003

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Machaerium premuticum n. sp., Vochysia acuminatafolia, Sparattanthelium pliocenicum n. sp., Endlichera rhamnoides
Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
? Sapium pliocenicum n. sp.
? Sapium pliocenicum n. sp. milktree
 Rosales - Urticaceae
Coussapoa sp.
Coussapoa sp. Aublet 1775 nettle
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Cassia aguaytiensis
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Mespilodaphne acrensis n. sp., Persea amoneana n. sp.
Persea amoneana n. sp. laurel
 Lamiales - Bignoniaceae
Bignonites mauryae n. sp.
Bignonites mauryae n. sp. trumpet vine