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 | |
Ctenis grandifolia Fontaine 1896 | |
unclassified | |
Equisetopsida | |
Podozamites lanceolatus Lindley and Hutton 1840 podocarp | |
Pinopsida | |
Nageiopsis angustifolia Fontaine 1889 yew | |
Cycadopsida | |
"Nilssonia pterophylloides" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia pterophylloides" = Nilsonia cycads | |
Dioonites buchianus Ettingshausen 1852 cycads | |
Ctenopteris | |
Ctenopteris angustifolia Fontaine 1889 | |
Carpites | |
Carpites ecuatoriensis n. sp.
Carpites ecuatoriensis n. sp. | |
Phyllites | |
Phyllites sp. Brongniart 1822 |