Cerro de los Banos (Triassic of Argentina)

Also known as PGAP 2388

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.0° S, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° S, 32.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Serie de Cacheuta Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• Basal part of "Serie de Cacheuta"

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Frenguelli. 1944. Contribuciones al conocimiento de la flora del Gondwana superior en la Argentina, XV. Notas del Museo de La Plata, Palaeontologia 9(63):271-310 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29372: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris "sp. 1" Sternberg 1825
Walkomia
  -
Walkomia "sp. 1" Schuster 1931
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris "sp. 1", "Nilssonia "sp. 1"" = Nilsonia
Taeniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 cycads
"Nilssonia "sp. 1"" = Nilsonia Brongniart 1825 cycads
Kurtziana
  -
Kurtziana "sp. 1" Frenguelli 1942
 Bennettitales -
Pterophyllum "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Cordaitopsida
  - Cordaitaceae
Noeggerathiopsis "sp. 1" Feistmantel 1879
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetites "sp. 1" Sternberg 1833
Zuberia
  -
Zuberia "sp. 1" Frenguelli 1944