Also known as Field number 421-455
Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.3° S, 67.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.4° S, 58.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Notostylops mammal zone, Sarmiento Formation, Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (48.6 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; poorly lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original cellulose
Collected by Scarritt Patagonian Expedition in November, 1931
Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1932. Fossil plants from Chubut territory collected by the Scarritt Patagonian Expedition. American Museum Novitates (536)1-10 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141241: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juliana Ceballos on 22.03.2013, edited by Jessica Moreno
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Phyllites | |
Phyllites "sp. 3" Brongniart 1822 Single fragment of a leaf (is the same as Phyllites 3 Dusén from the Seymour Island Tertiary)
Phyllites "sp. 2" Brongniart 1822 | |
Angiospermae | |
Rhoophyllum nordenskjoldi Dusén 1899 | |
Embothrites "sp." Unger 1850 (Winged seed probably from the same plant as the leaves referred to Embothriophyllum and belonging to the family Proteaceae)
Embothriophyllum dubium Dusén 1899 | |
Scirpitis sp. Dusén 1908 sedge | |
Actinopteri | |
Knightia andreae Dusén 1908 herring |