dc.creatorMartínez, Leandro Carlos Alcides
dc.creatorIglesias, Ari
dc.creatorArtabe, Analía Emilia Eva
dc.creatorVarela, Augusto Nicolás
dc.creatorApesteguía, Sebastián
dc.date2017
dc.date2021-11-15T17:06:09Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-15T04:05:37Z
dc.date.available2023-07-15T04:05:37Z
dc.identifierhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/128182
dc.identifierissn:0195-6671
dc.identifierissn:1095-998X
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/7468226
dc.descriptionThe cycads are remnants of a flora that dominated the terrestrial ecosystems across the Mesozoic Era. The stem record of fossil cycads is scanty, with seventeen genera described around the world. From them, eight come from Argentina (Triassic to Paleogene strata), and actually six from the Cretaceous of Patagonia. In this research, we present a new fossil trunk of cycad from Upper Cretaceous beds of Patagonia. The good preservation of the permineralized stem allows to make detailed descriptions and comparisons and, accordingly, support the erection of a new taxon, Zamuneria amyla gen. et sp. nov. This new taxon possesses characters that fit with the Encephalarteae (e.g., columnar stem with persistent leaf bases and cataphylls, a wide pith, medullary vascular bundles, mucilage canals and idioblasts, a polyxylic vascular cylinder). Some features present in Zamuneria are discussed, such as the great development of parenchyma tissues with a marked amount of specialized cells (idioblasts), probably related with some protective function. Furthermore, the presence of cycads during the deposition of the Mata Amarilla Formation allows inferring climatic conditions, as well as a greater diversity of Encephalarteae in South America reinforces the endemic conditions for this group for the Cretaceous of southern continents.
dc.descriptionFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo
dc.descriptionCentro de Investigaciones Geológicas
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.format81-94
dc.languageen
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.subjectPaleontología
dc.subjectAnatomy
dc.subjectArgentina
dc.subjectCycadales
dc.subjectFossils
dc.subjectPatagonia
dc.subjectSouth America
dc.subjectSystematics
dc.titleA new Encephalarteae trunk (Cycadales) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia (Mata Amarilla Formation, Austral Basin), Argentina
dc.typeArticulo
dc.typeArticulo


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