Early angiosperm leaves from the Aptian (113 to 119 million years ago) Baqueró Formation of Patagonia have been found in a fossil flora dominated by more than 100 species of gymnosperms and pteridophytes. They may be the first early Cretaceous angiosperm leaves to be reported from southern South America and one of the few reported in the Southern Hemisphere. The leaves are large, lobate, craspedodromous, and dentate (A-1 teeth) and have ramified tertiary veins and random fourth-order venation. Several of these features have been found in coeval and younger strata elsewhere, but not in the same combination. They were probably a marginal component of the flora.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Early cretaceous angiosperm leaves from southern South America |
Autor: | Romero, E.J.; Archangelsky, S. |
Filiación: | Departamento Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Guiraldes 2620, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina División Paleobotánica, Museo de Ciencias Naturales B. Rivadavia, Avenida Angel Gallardo 470, Buenos Aires 1405, Argentina |
Palabras clave: | gymnosperms; pteridophytes |
Año: | 1986 |
Volumen: | 234 |
Número: | 4783 |
Página de inicio: | 1580 |
Página de fin: | 1582 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.234.4783.1580 |
Título revista: | Science |
ISSN: | 00368075 |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00368075_v234_n4783_p1580_Romero |