Canadon Asfalto (Jurassic to of Argentina)

Also known as PGAP 20

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.5° S, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 29.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cañadón Asfalto Formation (Sierra de Olte Group), Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P.N. Stipanicic and M.I.R. Bonetti. 1970. Posiciones estratigraficas y edades de las principales floras jurasicas argentinas. II. Floras doggerianas y malmicas. Ameghiniana 7(2):101-118 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29381: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

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Taxonomic list

• Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
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Scleropteris
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Scleropteris "sp. 1"
Scleropteris "sp. 1" Saporta 1872
Polypodiopsida
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Cladophlebis "sp. 1"
Cladophlebis "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetites "sp. 1"
Equisetites "sp. 1" Sternberg 1833
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris "sp. 1", Sphenopteris "sp. 2"
Sphenopteris "sp. 1" Sternberg 1825
Sphenopteris "sp. 2" Sternberg 1825
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Palissya "sp. 1", Palissya "sp. 2"
Palissya "sp. 1" Endlicher 1847 yew
Palissya "sp. 2" Endlicher 1847 yew
 Coniferales -
Athrotaxites "sp. 1"
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucarites "sp. 1", Pagiophyllum "sp. 1", Pagiophyllum "sp. 2"