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Vol. 38 No. 4 (2016): Boletín de Geología
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NEW RECORDS OF FERNS AND CONIFERS FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS IN THE UPPER MAGDALENA VALLEY BASIN, COLOMBIA

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  • Camila Monje-Dussán,
  • Camila Martínez,
  • Ignacio Escapa,
  • Santiago Madriñán
Camila Monje-Dussán
Laboratorio de Botánica, Universidad de los Andes. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Corporación Geológica ARES,
Camila Martínez
L. H. Bailey Hortorium, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Ignacio Escapa
CONICET, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio.
Santiago Madriñán
Laboratorio de Botánica, Universidad de los Andes.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18273/revbol.v38n4-2016002

Published 2016-10-31

Keywords

  • Cretaceous,
  • Colombia,
  • Upper Magdalena Valley,
  • pteridophytes,
  • gymnospermophyta

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Monje-Dussán, C., Martínez, C., Escapa, I., & Madriñán, S. (2016). NEW RECORDS OF FERNS AND CONIFERS FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS IN THE UPPER MAGDALENA VALLEY BASIN, COLOMBIA. Boletín De Geología, 38(4), 29–42. https://doi.org/10.18273/revbol.v38n4-2016002

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Abstract

Descriptions of new plant macrofossils from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of Colombia are presented. The studied material was collected in the Upper Magdalena Valley Basin in three exposing levels from the Yaví and Caballos formations. The fossil remains are associated to filicopsids and conifers. Within the ferns, the family Marsileaceae, constitutes an important group identified in the fossil flora because it is proposed as the first record of aquatic ferns for the Lower Cretaceous of Colombia. Additionally, abundant sterile bipinnate fronds with lanceolate pinnule and pecopteridea venation remains were included in the morphogenus Cladophlebis sp. The studied conifers presented vegetative structures associated to reproductive organs. The most abundant sterile fragments were included within the morphogenus Brachyphyllum sp. and ovuliferous scales of Araucarites sp. (Araucariaceae) type. Together these new findings represent a key aspect to understand the biogeography of the mentioned groups and, simultaneously, contribute to the knowledge of the Cretaceous plant fossils from Colombia.

 

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