Site 9723, Nabon Basin (Miocene of Ecuador)

Also known as Baby Girl Pink

Where: Azuay, Ecuador (3.4° S, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 76.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Latrero Formation (Nabon Group), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• 0 level is at the base of the outcrop.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; poorly lithified, volcaniclastic shale

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 31048: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 08.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Angiosperm "NV"
Morphotype NV, see app. B-D of ref 8374 for more info
Angiosperm "NW"
Morphotype NW, see app. B-D of ref 8374 for more info