SC-1 borehole 907.5m sample, Austral Basin, Santa Cruz Province: Albian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Favososporites cf. spinulosus megaspore
Striatriletes sulcatus megaspore
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz
Coordinates: 50.6° South, 69.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.0° South, 41.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Palermo Aike
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "The Lower Cretaceous sediments were deposited in generally restricted, partly anoxic, marine conditions (p.99)"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original sporopollenin
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:core,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: 0.100 kg processed for megaspores.
Taxonomic list comments:List does not include "diverse foraminiferal assemblage[s]" reported in Malumian 1990, pp. 455-456.
Metadata
Database number:44187
Authorizer:R. Lupia Enterer:R. Lupia
Modifier:R. Lupia Research group:paleobotany
Subset of collection #:44185
Created:2004-09-03 19:40:05 Last modified:2004-09-03 23:16:24
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-03 19:40:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11607. A. M. Baldoni and D. J. Batten. 1997. Cretaceous megaspores from two boreholes in the Austral Basin, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, and their stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental significance. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 205(1):97-110 [R. Lupia/R. Lupia/R. Lupia]