Where: Ecuador (4.0° S, 79.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 3.1° S, 75.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1935. Fossil plants from the Malacatos Valley in Southern Ecuador. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 25(3):126-128 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31245: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 25.04.2003
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Angiospermae | |
Pithecolobium ecuadorensis n. sp.
Pithecolobium ecuadorensis n. sp. | |
Cassia linearifolia legume | |
Ruprechtia | |