Also known as Rotch Dome

Where: Byers Peninsula, Antarctica (62.6° S, 61.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.1° S, 47.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro Negro Formation (Byers Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• For a detailed revision of the geology of the area, see Párica et al. (2007) and Vera (2012).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified conglomerate and lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

• Plant debris, woods, palynomorphs.

Preservation: mold/impression, soft parts, original sporopollenin, original cellulose, replaced with silica

Collected by M. Remesal, F. Salani and C. Párica in 1997-; reposited in the MACN

Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

• Museum repositories: Paleobotany Collection of the Museum of Natural Sciences "Bernardino Rivadavia"

Primary reference: E. I. Vera. 2010. Estudios anatómicos en paleofloras del Aptiano de Antártida y Patagonia, y su comparación. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales 294 [C. Jaramillo/J. Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151291: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Jessica Moreno on 26.09.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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