Pinalerita UFP 26, Llanos foothills, Colombia: Early/Lower Eocene, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Gentianales - Apocynaceae
Cricotriporites guianensis microspore Leidelmeyer 1966
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Araceae
Proxapertites operculatus microspore Van der Hammen 1956
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 4.9° North, 73.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.5° North, 61.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Eocene
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:55.80000 - 48.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Arcillas de el Limbo
Local section:Pinalerita Local bed:455.4
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green claystone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-deltaic indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:highstand systems tract
Geology comments: Environments range from bed-load channels to bay-head estuarine deltas.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original sporopollenin
Size of fossils:microfossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:28771
Authorizer:E. Kowalski Enterer:E. Kowalski
Modifier:E. Kowalski Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-02-24 13:54:15 Last modified:2003-02-24 15:54:30
Access level:the public Released:2003-02-24 13:54:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7828. C. A. Jaramillo and D. L. Dilcher. 2001. Middle Paleogene palynology of Central Colombia, South America: A study of pollen and spores from tropical latitudes. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 258(4-6):87-213 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/C. Jaramillo]