Where: santa Cruz, Argentina (51.6° S, 72.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° S, 67.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Formal lithostratigraphic assignment of these beds remains unclear. The age of the conglomeratic strata is restricted by the age of the underlying Santa Cruz Formation, which in the study area was dated as early Miocene (18.1 ± 0.4 Ma) by Fosdick et al., 2011 (Pujana et al., 2015).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, medium-grained conglomerate and lithified breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, replaced with carbon

Collection methods: peel or thin section

• Museum repository: MPM PB - Museo Padre Molina, Santa Cruz, Argentina, palaeobotanical collection.

Primary reference: R. R. Pujana, C. Panti, J. I. Cuitiño, J. L. García Massini, and S. L. Mirabelli. 2015. A new megaflora (fossil woods and leaves) from the Miocene of southwestern Patagonia. Ameghiniana 52(3):350-366 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174131: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 29.10.2015

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