Triassic plants from the Rincón Blanco Group, San Juan Province, Argentina

Fluvial and lacustrine strata of the Portezuelo and Casa de Piedra Formations, Rincón Blanco Group, Middle to Upper Triassic of San Juan province, yield a distinctive taphoflora. The Portezuelo Formation plant remains are relatively scarce and mostly include peltasperms (Lepidopteris madagascariensi...

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spelling paper:paper_00027014_v43_n2_p477_Ottone2023-06-08T14:22:12Z Triassic plants from the Rincón Blanco Group, San Juan Province, Argentina Ottone, Eduardo Guillermo Argentina Plants Sistematics Triassic fossil assemblage paleobotany paleoecology plant taxonomy Triassic Argentina San Juan [Argentina] South America Coniferales Coniferophyta Corystospermales Cycadales Cycadeoidales Dicroidium Dicroidium odontopteroides Equisetophyta Neocalamites Obtusifolium Pseudoctenis Taeniopteris Fluvial and lacustrine strata of the Portezuelo and Casa de Piedra Formations, Rincón Blanco Group, Middle to Upper Triassic of San Juan province, yield a distinctive taphoflora. The Portezuelo Formation plant remains are relatively scarce and mostly include peltasperms (Lepidopteris madagascariensis Carpentier and Antevsia sp.), together with Bennettitales (Taeniopteris sp.), and probable Coniferales (Incertae sedis (ovule scale?) sp. B) and pteridosperm fronds (Incertae sedis sp. A). The fossil plant assemblage recovered from the Casa de Piedra Formation is more abundant and mainly includes Corystospermales (Dicroidium incisum (Du Toit) Anderson and Anderson, D. odontopteroides var. moltense Retallack, D. odontopteroides var. obtusifolium Johnston, D. odontopteroides var. remotum (Szajnocha) Retallack, Xylopteris densifolia (Du Toit) Frenguelli, X. remotipinnulia (Anderson and Anderson) comb. nov., X. rigida (Dun) Jain and Delevoyras, X. spinifolia (Tenison-Woods) Frenguelli and Zuberia zuberi (Szajnocha) Frenguelli, but also Sphenophyta (Neocalamites sp.) and Cycadales (Pseudoctenis sp. A and P. sp. B). The flora of the Rincón Blanco Group would chiefly represent a substratum of herbaceous and shrubby vegetation. Although the Portezuelo and Casa de Piedra Formations have been referred to the Cortaderitian and Florian stages, on the basis of regional correlations, the lack of diagnostic taxa difficult close comparisons of the Rincón Blanco Group flora with local biozones. © Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. Fil:Ottone, E.G. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2006 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00027014_v43_n2_p477_Ottone http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00027014_v43_n2_p477_Ottone
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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topic Argentina
Plants
Sistematics
Triassic
fossil assemblage
paleobotany
paleoecology
plant
taxonomy
Triassic
Argentina
San Juan [Argentina]
South America
Coniferales
Coniferophyta
Corystospermales
Cycadales
Cycadeoidales
Dicroidium
Dicroidium odontopteroides
Equisetophyta
Neocalamites
Obtusifolium
Pseudoctenis
Taeniopteris
spellingShingle Argentina
Plants
Sistematics
Triassic
fossil assemblage
paleobotany
paleoecology
plant
taxonomy
Triassic
Argentina
San Juan [Argentina]
South America
Coniferales
Coniferophyta
Corystospermales
Cycadales
Cycadeoidales
Dicroidium
Dicroidium odontopteroides
Equisetophyta
Neocalamites
Obtusifolium
Pseudoctenis
Taeniopteris
Ottone, Eduardo Guillermo
Triassic plants from the Rincón Blanco Group, San Juan Province, Argentina
topic_facet Argentina
Plants
Sistematics
Triassic
fossil assemblage
paleobotany
paleoecology
plant
taxonomy
Triassic
Argentina
San Juan [Argentina]
South America
Coniferales
Coniferophyta
Corystospermales
Cycadales
Cycadeoidales
Dicroidium
Dicroidium odontopteroides
Equisetophyta
Neocalamites
Obtusifolium
Pseudoctenis
Taeniopteris
description Fluvial and lacustrine strata of the Portezuelo and Casa de Piedra Formations, Rincón Blanco Group, Middle to Upper Triassic of San Juan province, yield a distinctive taphoflora. The Portezuelo Formation plant remains are relatively scarce and mostly include peltasperms (Lepidopteris madagascariensis Carpentier and Antevsia sp.), together with Bennettitales (Taeniopteris sp.), and probable Coniferales (Incertae sedis (ovule scale?) sp. B) and pteridosperm fronds (Incertae sedis sp. A). The fossil plant assemblage recovered from the Casa de Piedra Formation is more abundant and mainly includes Corystospermales (Dicroidium incisum (Du Toit) Anderson and Anderson, D. odontopteroides var. moltense Retallack, D. odontopteroides var. obtusifolium Johnston, D. odontopteroides var. remotum (Szajnocha) Retallack, Xylopteris densifolia (Du Toit) Frenguelli, X. remotipinnulia (Anderson and Anderson) comb. nov., X. rigida (Dun) Jain and Delevoyras, X. spinifolia (Tenison-Woods) Frenguelli and Zuberia zuberi (Szajnocha) Frenguelli, but also Sphenophyta (Neocalamites sp.) and Cycadales (Pseudoctenis sp. A and P. sp. B). The flora of the Rincón Blanco Group would chiefly represent a substratum of herbaceous and shrubby vegetation. Although the Portezuelo and Casa de Piedra Formations have been referred to the Cortaderitian and Florian stages, on the basis of regional correlations, the lack of diagnostic taxa difficult close comparisons of the Rincón Blanco Group flora with local biozones. © Asociación Paleontológica Argentina.
author Ottone, Eduardo Guillermo
author_facet Ottone, Eduardo Guillermo
author_sort Ottone, Eduardo Guillermo
title Triassic plants from the Rincón Blanco Group, San Juan Province, Argentina
title_short Triassic plants from the Rincón Blanco Group, San Juan Province, Argentina
title_full Triassic plants from the Rincón Blanco Group, San Juan Province, Argentina
title_fullStr Triassic plants from the Rincón Blanco Group, San Juan Province, Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Triassic plants from the Rincón Blanco Group, San Juan Province, Argentina
title_sort triassic plants from the rincón blanco group, san juan province, argentina
publishDate 2006
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00027014_v43_n2_p477_Ottone
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00027014_v43_n2_p477_Ottone
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