Pinalerita UFP 11, Llanos foothills, Colombia (Paleocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (4.9° N, 73.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 60.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arcillas de el Limbo Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; mudstone and siliciclastic

• Environments range from bed-load channels to bay-head estuarine deltas

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: C. A. Jaramillo and D. L. Dilcher. 2001. Middle Paleogene palynology of Central Colombia, South America: A study of pollen and spores from tropical latitudes. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 258(4-6):87-213 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28439: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 13.02.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucariacites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953
Retistephanocolpites angeli
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Retistephanocolpites angeli Leidelmeyer 1966
Psilamonocolpites medius
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Psilamonocolpites medius Van der Hammen 1954
Retitrescolpites
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Retitrescolpites baculatus n. sp. Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
Gymnospermopsida
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Laevigatasporites sp. Potonié and Gelletich 1933
Tuberositriletes
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Pteridopsida
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? Polypodiaceoisporites fossulatus n. sp. Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Polypodiisporites echinatus n. sp. Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
Ginkgoopsida
 Ephedrales -
Ephedripites vanegensis Van der Hammen and Garcia de Mutis 1966
Angiospermae
 Malvales - Bombacaceae
Bombacacidites sp. Couper 1960
Bombacacidites annae Germeraad 1968
Bombacacidites protofoveoreticulatus n. sp. Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
 Malvales -
Crototricolpites protoannemariae n. sp. Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites protoclarensis n. sp. Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Proxapertites humbertoides Van der Hammen 1954
Proxapertites psilatus Sarmiento 1992
Proxapertites magnus Müller et al. 1987
Proxapertites operculatus Van der Hammen 1956
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Spinizonocolpites breviechinatus n. sp. Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001 palm
Mauritiidites franciscoi van Hoeken-Klinkenberg 1964 palm
var. franciscoi and var. minutus
Arecipites regio Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001 palm
n. comb.
Longapertites microfoveolatus Adegoke and Jan du Chene 1975 palm
Magnoliopsida
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Colombipollis tropicalis Sarmiento 1992
Siltaria sp. Traverse 1955
Echimonocolpites sp. der Hammen and de Mutis 1965
Striatopollis sp. Krutzsch 1959
 Life -
Tetracolporopollenites spongiosus n. sp. Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001