Baculatisporites turbioensis Archangelsky 1972 (fern)

Polypodiopsida - Osmundaceae

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 Baculatisporites according to V. S. Perez Loinaze et al. 2023

See also Archangelsky 1972, Vera et al. 2022 and Zamaloa 2004

Sister taxa: Baculatisporites clavaeoides, Baculatisporites comaumensis, Baculatisporites emarginatus, Baculatisporites kachaikensis, Baculatisporites pileolus, Baculatisporites sehoraensis

Type specimen: Holotype: p.m. 745, coord. 46.7/103.6. Stored at Museo de La Plata, Paleobotanical division., a microspore (Spore). Its type locality is Pozo D-14, which is in an Eocene coastal horizon in the Río Turbio Formation of Argentina.

Average measurements (in mm): Spore diameter 0.041

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (6)

• Eocene of Argentina (3)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (3)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (2)

Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence

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