Cerrejón Formation 0319: Middle Paleocene - Late Paleocene, Colombia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae
- Oxalidales
- Elaeocarpaceae
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| 57 specimens | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Malpighiales
- Violaceae
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| 2 specimens | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Malpighiales
- Salicaceae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Fabales
- Fabaceae
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| 2 specimens | ||||||||||
| 3 specimens | ||||||||||
| 2 specimens | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Malvales
- Malvaceae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| Tilioideae, Bombacoideae | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Laurales
- Lauraceae
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| 16 specimens | ||||||||||
| 2 specimens | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Ranunculales
- Menispermaceae
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| 4 specimens | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Arecaceae
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| 3 specimens | ||||||||||
| Coryphoideae, Calamoideae | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
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| 4 specimens | ||||||||||
| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| 4 specimens | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Ericales
- Sapotaceae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Colombia |
| Coordinates: | 11.1° North, 72.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.2° North, 52.1° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Selandian - Thanetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Paleocene - Late Paleocene | Pollen zone: | Foveotricolpites perforatus |
| Age range of interval: | 61.66 - 56 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cerrejón |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified silty,sandy "siliciclastic" |
| Lithology description: We collected fossil leaves and fruits from six lens-shaped, siltstone/sandstone bodies with inclined heterolithic strata that suggest deposition in low-energy channels. Ten other localities preserve leaves in thin but tabular beds of flat- laminated siltstone that indicate deposition in small lakes. The megafloral local- ities occur from 100 –750 m above the base of the formation | |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | 0319 | ||
| Database number: | 134746 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wilf | Enterer: | M. Donovan | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2012-10-15 23:37:37 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-10-15 23:37:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43182. | S. L. Wing, F. Herrera, C. A. Jaramillo, C. Gómez-Navarro, P. Wilf and C. C. Labandeira. 2009. Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(44):18627-18632 [P. Wilf/M. Donovan/M. Uhen] |