Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013
This chapter analyses plant fossils including phytoliths, carbonized wood, and
leaf compressions, along with microcharcoal, chrysophycean stomatocysts, sponge
spicules, and diatoms, recovered from the Estancia La Costa Member, Santa Cruz
Formation (late Early Miocene), in the Atlantic margin of Patagonia, Argentina.
The floristic composition and paleoclimatic inferences based on this fossil
plants assemblage from the late Early Miocene are presented. The fossil flora is
characterized by the presence of herbaceous components including chloridoid,
panicoid, danthonioid, pooid, and festucoid grasses. The arboreal elements
include members of the Araucariaceae, Lauraceae, Arecaceae, Nothofagaceae,
Myrtaceae,
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