INVESTIGADORES
GARCIA MASSINI Juan Leandro
artículos
Título:
A NEW MEGAFLORA (FOSSIL WOODS AND LEAVES) FROM THE MIOCENE OF SOUTHWESTERN PATAGONIA
Autor/es:
PUJANA R.R.; PANTI, C.; CUITIÑO, J.I; J.L. GARCIA MASSINI; MIRABELLI, S.L.
Revista:
AMEGHINIANA
Editorial:
ASOCIACION PALEONTOLOGICA ARGENTINA
Referencias:
Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2015 vol. 52 p. 350 - 366
ISSN:
0002-7014
Resumen:
A new megaflora composed of fossil woods and leaves is described. Bearing sediments overlay the Santa Cruz Formation (early Miocene), making it one of the youngest fossil megafloras described from southern Patagonia. Fossil woods are carbonized and found as clasts of a conglomerate. They comprise few specimens representing Araucariaceae (Agathoxylon sp.), Podocarpaceae (Phyllocladoxylon sp.), Cupressaceae (Cupressinoxylon sp.) and two indeterminable angiosperms with anatomy consistent with Nothofagaceae. Most leaves are assigned to Nothofagaceae while fewer specimens are related to Lauraceae, Typhaceae, Leguminosae, and a conifer. The recovered assemblage suggests a temperate climate similar to that of northern Patagonia today, where living relatives of the fossils described herein inhabit.
