FH0903 (Bogota Formation): Thanetian, Colombia
collected by F. Herrera 2009

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Cundinamarca
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 74.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.5° North, 54.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
Stage: Thanetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
Key time interval: Thanetian Pollen zone:  T-03b- Foveotricolpites perforatus
Age range of interval: 59.24 - 56 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bogota
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Age of the Bogota Formation according to Jaramillo , C. , M. Rueda , and V. Torres . 2011 . A Palynological
Zonation for the Cenozoic of the Llanos Foothills of Colombia. Palynology 35 : 46 – 84 .
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tabular,yellow lithified muddy,silty mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Plant fossils found in a massive yellowish lacustrine claystone bed, about 40 cm thick underneath a thick red paleosol.
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Feeding/predation traces:external foliage feeding,seed feeding,piercing/sucking
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:F. Herrera Collection dates:2009
Collection method comments: Repository: Ingeominas, Bogota, Colombia
Metadata
Database number:121517
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:F. Herrera
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2011-12-06 07:13:12 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-12-06 07:13:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

38750. F. Herrera, S. R. Manchester, S. B. Hoot, K. M. Wefferling, M. R. Carvalho and C. Jaramillo. 2011. Phytogeographic implications of fossil endocarps of Menispermaceae from the Paleocene of Colombia. American Journal of Botany 98(12):2004-2017 [A. Hendy/F. Herrera]