Primitive Vascular Plants and Microfossils from the Río Seco de los Castaños Formation, San Rafael Block, Mendoza Province, Argentina

dc.creatorMorel, Eduardo Manuel
dc.creatorCingolani, Carlos Alberto
dc.creatorGanuza, Daniel Gustavo
dc.creatorUriz, Norberto Javier
dc.creatorBodnar, Josefina
dc.creatorCingolani, Carlos Alberto
dc.date2017
dc.date2020-09-23T16:37:03Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-14T22:24:25Z
dc.date.available2023-07-14T22:24:25Z
dc.identifierhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/105204
dc.identifierisbn:978-3-319-50153-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/7446779
dc.descriptionIn this contribution we describe fossil plant remains from Río Seco de los Castaños Formation, at San Rafael Block, Mendoza Province, Argentina. The fossil plants comprise non-forked and forked axes without or with delicate lateral expansions, which are assigned to Bowerophylloides cf. mendozaensis and Hostinella sp. We refer them to primitive land plants and discuss about their systematic affiliation. Furthermore, we mention the presence of a diverse acritarch assemblage present in the same lithostratigraphic unit. On the basis of the taxonomical information and stratigraphic correlation, we could infer that Río Seco de los Castaños Formation has an Early Devonian age. The taphonomical conditions of this fossil association would indicate that the plants were transported some distance from their presumed coastal and riverbank habitats. Finally, studying the amount and the percentage of kaolinite within charcoal levels, warm to cool temperate paleoclimatic conditions were deduced.
dc.descriptionFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.format209-220
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
dc.subjectCiencias Naturales
dc.subjectVascular plants
dc.subjectMicrofossils
dc.subjectLower Devonian
dc.subjectSan Rafael block
dc.subjectMendoza
dc.titlePrimitive Vascular Plants and Microfossils from the Río Seco de los Castaños Formation, San Rafael Block, Mendoza Province, Argentina
dc.typeLibro
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