Uribe UFP 74, Magdalena Valley, Colombia: Early/Lower Eocene, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Bacumorphomonocolpites tausae microspore Sole de Porta 1971
1 specimen
Monocolpopollenites ovatus n. sp. microspore Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
1 specimen
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites tibuensis microspore Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
2 specimens
n. comb.
Polypodiopsida - Osmundaceae
Baculatisporites sp. microspore Thomson and Pflug 1953
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
Spirosyncolpites spiralis microspore González-Guzmán 1967
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Araceae
Proxapertites verrucatus microspore Sarmiento 1992
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Arecaceae
Spinizonocolpites cf. baculatus microspore Muller 1968
1 specimen
Magnoliopsida
Striatopollis catatumbus microspore Gonzalez-Guzman 1967
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 7.3° North, 73.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.9° North, 62.1° 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:La Paz Local bed:180
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 0 level is at the base of the La Paz Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-deltaic indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:lowstand systems tract
Geology comments: Environments range from braided/chute bed-load channels to suspended-load channels.
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:29145
Authorizer:E. Kowalski Enterer:E. Kowalski
Modifier:E. Kowalski Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-03-24 09:01:48 Last modified:2003-03-24 13:20:45
Access level:the public Released:2003-03-24 09:01:48
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]