North Malacatos, Rio Malacatos Valley (Miocene to of Ecuador)

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
  - Polypodiaceae
Angiospermae
 Rosales - Mimosaceae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Ruprechtia
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