Locality 1, Los Sabalos Quebrada (Cretaceous to of Ecuador)

Where: El Oro, Ecuador (3.9° S, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 50.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ciano Formation, Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. E. Shoemaker. 1982. Fossil leaves from the Lower Cretaceous Ciano Formation Southwestern Ecuador. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 180(4-6):120-132 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32482: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 03.07.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Ctenis grandifolia Fontaine 1896
unclassified
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Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites lanceolatus Lindley and Hutton 1840 podocarp
 Bennettitales -
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Nageiopsis angustifolia Fontaine 1889 yew
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia pterophylloides" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia pterophylloides" = Nilsonia cycads
 Cycadales - Cycadaceae
Dioonites buchianus Ettingshausen 1852 cycads
Ctenopteris
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Carpites
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Phyllites
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Phyllites sp. Brongniart 1822