SC-1 borehole 903.0-907.0m sample, Austral Basin, Santa Cruz Province (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.6° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 56.0° S, 41.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Palermo Aike Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• "The Lower Cretaceous sediments were deposited in generally restricted, partly anoxic, marine conditions (p.99)"

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical,

• 0.100 kg processed for megaspores.

Primary reference: A. M. Baldoni and D. J. Batten. 1997. Cretaceous megaspores from two boreholes in the Austral Basin, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, and their stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental significance. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 205(1):97-110 [R. Lupia/R. Lupia/R. Lupia]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44188: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Rick Lupia on 03.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
Horstisporites
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