Full reference: S. Archangelsky. 1972. Esporas de la Formación Río Turbio (Eoceno), Provincia de Santa Cruz. Revista del Museo de la Plata (nueva serie), Sección Paleontología 6(39):65-100
Belongs to Biretisporites according to S. Archangelsky 1972
See also Archangelsky and Zamaloa 2003, De Benedetti et al. 2024, Povilauskas 2017, Santamarina et al. 2020 and Santamarina et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Biretisporites bellus, Biretisporites convexus, Biretisporites deltoidus, Biretisporites eneabbaensis, Biretisporites potoniaei, Biretisporites potoniei, Biretisporites spectabilis, Biretisporites triglobosus
Type specimen: Holotype: prep. 743 coord. 52.5/118.4. Stored at Museo de La Plata, Paleobotanical division., a microspore (spore). Its type locality is Pozo D-13, which is in an Eocene coastal horizon in the Río Turbio Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Average measurements (in mm): Spore diameter 0.041
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (4 collections)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (7)
• Paleocene of Argentina (15)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (16), Chile (1)
Total: 45 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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