Los Nacimientos de Abajo: Late/Upper Miocene, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae
Scirpitis informal sp. 1 Dusén 1908
Angiospermae - Sapindales - Anacardiaceae
Schinus aff. terebinthifolia Raddi 1820
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Catamarca
Coordinates: 27.2° South, 66.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.4° South, 64.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chiquimil Member:B
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green lithified "shale"
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: Origen fluvial con algunos episodios lacustres en la base y distintos tipos de planicie de inundación alejadas del canal, inundación intermedia y explayamiento.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,adpression,original cellulose
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repositorio: Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, y Fundación Miguel Lillo.
Metadata
Database number:139661
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Ceballos
Modifier:P. Santamarina Research group:paleobotany
Created:2013-02-15 09:05:51 Last modified:2013-10-04 10:57:54
Access level:authorizer only Released:2018-02-15 09:05:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
44858. L. M. Anzótegui. 2004. Megaflora de la Formación Chiquimil, (Mioceno Superior), en los valles de Santa María y Villavil, provincias de Catamarca y Tocumán, Argentina. Ameghiniana 41(3):303-314 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/A. Cárdenas]