Also known as As Pontes de García Rodríguez
Where: A Coruña, Spain (43.5° N, 7.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 10.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• "H" packet in Unit 1
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lignite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: L. Cabrera, W. Jung, M. Kirchner, A. Sáez, and H. H. Schleich. 1994. Crocodilian and palaeobotanical findings from the Tertiary Lignites of the As Pontes Basin (Galicia, NW-Spain) (Crocodylia, Plantae). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 173:153-165 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154035: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Algae | |
Ovoidites spp. Krutzsch 1959 | |
Angiospermae | |
Sparganiaceaepollenites sp. Thiergart 1937 | |
Tricolporopollenites cingulum spurge Tricolporopollenites cingulum fusus and possibly T. cingulum pusillus
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Pinopsida | |
Pityosporites spp. Seward 1914 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
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Reptilia | |
Diplocynodon sp. Pomel 1847 crocodilian Fragmentary left dentary, teeth and osteoderms (Colección de la Sección de Geologia, ENDESA, Mina de As Pontes-La Coruña [Spain]; casts deposited in the Instituto de Paleontología Dr. M. Crusafont/ E. Sabadell and in the Institute of Palaeontology, Bavarian State Collection [BSP Inv. Nr.1993 1 2])
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Tricolpopollenites | |
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Cyperaceaepollis | |
Cyperaceaepollis sp. Krutzsch 1970 | |
Tetracolporopollenites | |
Tetracolporopollenites sp. Pflug and Thomson 1953 |