As Pontes coal seam package H: Oligocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Toroisporis sp.
Inapenuropollenites concedipites
Monogemmites sp.
? Nymphaeapollenites sp.
Emmapollis pseudoemmaensis
Reptilia
Diplocynodon sp. Pomel 1847
Fragmentary left dentary, teeth and osteoderms (Colección de la Sección de Geologia, ENDESA, Mina de As Pontes-La Coruña [Spain]; casts deposited in the Instituto de Paleontología Dr. M. Crusafont/ E. Sabadell and in the Institute of Palaeontology, Bavarian State Collection [BSP Inv. Nr.1993 1 2])
Algae - Zygnemataceae
Ovoidites spp.
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Pityosporites spp.
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Tricolporopollenites cingulum
Tricolporopollenites cingulum fusus and possibly T. cingulum pusillus
Angiospermae - Proteales
Triatriopollenites rurensis
Angiospermae - Poales - Typhaceae
Sparganiaceaepollenites sp. Thiergart 1937
Polypodiopsida - Osmundaceae
Baculatisporites nanus
Baculatisporites nanus cf. baculatus
Pteridopsida
Leiotriletes maxoides
Echinatisporis cf. cycloides
Ischyosporites foveasolidus
unclassified
Cyperaceaepollis sp. Krutzsch 1970
Tetracolporopollenites sp. Pflug and Thomson 1953
Tricolpopollenites liblarensis
"Tricolpopollenites l. liblarensis"
Tricolpopollenites quisqualis
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:A Coruña
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 7.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.9° North, 10.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Oligocene
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "H" packet in Unit 1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lignite
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:As Pontes de García Rodríguez
Database number:154035
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-01-23 05:39:58 Last modified:2014-01-23 05:39:58
Access level:the public Released:2014-01-23 05:39:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

49919. L. Cabrera, W. Jung, M. Kirchner, A. Sáez, and H. H. Schleich. 1994. Crocodilian and palaeobotanical findings from the Tertiary Lignites of the As Pontes Basin (Galicia, NW-Spain) (Crocodylia, Plantae). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 173:153-165 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]