Nelumbo puertae Gandolfo and Cuneo 2005 (lotus)

Angiospermae - Proteales - Nelumbonaceae

Full reference: M. A. Gandolfo and R. N. Cuneo. 2005. Fossil Nelumbonaceae from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian–Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 133:169-178

Belongs to Nelumbo according to M. A. Gandolfo and R. N. Cuneo 2005

Sister taxa: Nelumbo aureavallis, Nelumbo dawsoni, Nelumbo intermedia, Nelumbo kempii, Nelumbo lakesiana, Nelumbo laramiensis, Nelumbo nangalensis, Nelumbo nucifera, Nelumbo protolutea, Nelumbo pygmaea, Nelumbo saskatchuense

Type specimen: MPEF-Pb-Mz 864-A and B, a leaf. Its type locality is Cañadón del Irupé, which is in a Cretaceous/Paleocene marginal marine siliciclastic/siliciclastic in Argentina.

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Cañadón del Irupé

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