Punta Arena (Eocene of Peru)
Where: Peru (4.6° S, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.0° S, 111.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Chacras Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified claystone
• The materials are light-colored clays and sands, from which a few marine invertebrates, quantities of palm-nuts, and fragments of small twigs and branches of calcified (not silicified, as stated by Iddings & Olsson) wood up to 3 or 4 centimeters in diameter weather out.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized, original cellulose
Collected by Edward W. Berry in 1927
Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1929. Eocene plants from Restin Formation of Peru. Reprinted from the Panamerican Geologist LI:240-245 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/J. Moreno]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139888: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juliana Ceballos on 20.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae | |
Carpolithus jatrophaformis n. sp.
Carpolithus jatrophaformis n. sp. Berry 1929 | |
Iriartites restinensis n. sp.
Iriartites restinensis n. sp. Berry 1929 palm | |
Attalea | |
Attalea olssoni Berry 1926 |