El Mirador - Mirhoja (Miocene of Argentina)

Also known as Laguna del Hunco

Where: Chubut, Argentina (42.3° S, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 65.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, cherty/siliceous tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Berry E. in 1939 y 1940; reposited in the MLP

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: J. Frenguelli. 1943. Restos de Casuarina en el Mioceno de El Mirador, Patagonia ceyesral. Notas del Museo de La Plata 8:349-354 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169747: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 01.06.2015, edited by Elena Stiles

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ginkgoites
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Ginkgoites patagonicus Villar de Seoane et al. 2015
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Casuarina palagonica n. sp. Frenguelli 1943