Site 9730, Nabon Basin (Miocene of Ecuador)

Where: Azuay, Ecuador (3.3° S, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 76.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Infiernillo Member (Iguincha Formation), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• 0 level is at the base of the outcrop.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, tuffaceous, volcaniclastic siliciclastic sediments

• Ash is pink when fresh, white weathered, white clasts throughout.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. A. Kowalski. 2001. Middle to late Miocene environments of southern Ecuador: temperature, elevation and fossil plants of the Nabon Basin. Ph.D. Dissertation, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan 1-437 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31021: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 04.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthophyta
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Liliopsida "NR"
Liliopsida "NR"
Morphotype NR, see Appendices B-D of ref 8374 for more info.
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Goniopteris cochabombensis
Magnoliopsida
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Magnoliopsida "N8", Magnoliopsida "N31", Magnoliopsida "N54"
Magnoliopsida "N8" Cronquist et al. 1996
Morphotype N8, see Appendices B-D of ref 8374 for more info.
Magnoliopsida "N31" Cronquist et al. 1996
Morphotype N31, see Appendices B-D of ref 8374 for more info.
Magnoliopsida "N54" Cronquist et al. 1996
Morphotype N54, see Appendices B-D of ref 8374 for more info.
Angiospermae
 Rosids - Moraceae
? Moraceae indet.
? Moraceae indet. Link 1835 mulberry
Morphotype N35, see Appendices B-D of ref 8374 for more info.