Regadera UFP 58, Catatumbo area, Colombia: Early/Lower Eocene, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites tibuensis microspore Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
131 specimens
n. comb.
unclassified
Retistephanocolpites fossulatus n. sp. microspore Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
1 specimen
Retibrevitricolpites sp. microspore van Hoeken-Klinkenberg 1966
3 specimens
Psilamonocolpites medius microspore Van der Hammen 1954
1 specimen
Monocolpopollenites ovatus n. sp. microspore Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
3 specimens
Magnoliopsida
Horniella sp. microspore Traverse 1955
1 specimen
? Striatopollis tennuistriatus n. sp. microspore
1 specimen
Foveotriporites hammenii microspore González-Guzmán 1967
4 specimens
Angiospermae - Myrtales - Onagraceae
Corsinipollenites undulatus microspore Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
2 specimens
n. comb.
Angiospermae - Poales - Poaceae
Monoporopollenites annulatus microspore (Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001)
1 specimen
original and current combination Monoporites annulatus
n. comb.
Angiospermae - Arecaceae
Longapertites proxapertitoides microspore Van der Hammen and Garcia de Mutis 1966
1 specimen
var. proxapertitoides
Mauritiidites franciscoi microspore van Hoeken-Klinkenberg 1964
7 specimens
var. franciscoi, var. minutus
unclassified
? Tetracolporopollenites sp. microspore Pflug and Thomson 1953
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 7.7° North, 72.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° North, 61.4° 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:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mirador Local bed:145.2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 0 level is at the base of the Mirador Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-deltaic indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:lowstand systems tract
Geology comments: Environments range from braided/chute channels to floodplain and overbank deposits.
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:29144
Authorizer:E. Kowalski Enterer:E. Kowalski
Modifier:E. Kowalski Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-03-24 08:58:08 Last modified:2003-03-24 10:58:22
Access level:the public Released:2003-03-24 08:58:08
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]