Plantas Fósiles del Grupo Choiyoi, Cordillera Frontal a la Latitud del río Mendoza
; Ottone, Eduardo Guillermo 
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07/2011
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Asociación Geológica Argentina
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Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina
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En este trabajo se dan a conocer los primeros restos fósiles hallados en sedimentitas, cuyo componente clástico es de origen volcánico, intercaladas en la Formación Tambillos del Grupo Choiyoi, Cordillera Frontal de Mendoza. Los mismos consisten en abundantes improntas de Sphenophyta en estado de preservación regular a malo. En la zona estudiada, las rocas de la Formación Tambillos, que son dominantemente volcánicas ácidas y de edad pérmica temprana a media según correlaciones regionales, se depositaron sobre una discordancia erosiva labrada en lavas andesíticas intensamente propilitizadas que se atribuyen a la Formación Portezuelo del Cenizo. Los restos vegetales se encuentran a unos 23 metros de la base, contenidos en niveles de areniscas finas y pelitas depositadas en un ambiente fluvial (microdelta), en los bordes de un lago y fueron coetáneas con los primeros episodios de volcanismo riolítico en la región. Si bien la flora encontrada no permite definir la edad, las formas presentes son comunes en niveles del Carbonífero superior-Pérmico y Triásico de Argentina.
In this contribution we report the discovery of the first fossil remains in sedimentary strata belonging to the Tambillos Formation, Choiyoi Group, Cordillera Frontal of Mendoza. In the studied area the Tambillos Formation, which is formed dominantly by acid volcanics rocks of alleged Early to the Middle Permian, were deposited over an erosive unconformity on top of propilytic andesites of the Portezuelo del Cenizo Formation. The vegetal remains were found about 23 meters from the base of the formation, hosted in fine-grained sandstones and shales that were deposited in a fluvial environment (microdelta), along the borders of a lake during the first episodes of the rhyolitic volcanism of the region. The fossil flora includes abundant, poorly preserved impressions of Sphenophyta that does not permit to assign a precise age, although these forms are common in the Upper Carboniferous-Permian and Triassic of Argentina.
In this contribution we report the discovery of the first fossil remains in sedimentary strata belonging to the Tambillos Formation, Choiyoi Group, Cordillera Frontal of Mendoza. In the studied area the Tambillos Formation, which is formed dominantly by acid volcanics rocks of alleged Early to the Middle Permian, were deposited over an erosive unconformity on top of propilytic andesites of the Portezuelo del Cenizo Formation. The vegetal remains were found about 23 meters from the base of the formation, hosted in fine-grained sandstones and shales that were deposited in a fluvial environment (microdelta), along the borders of a lake during the first episodes of the rhyolitic volcanism of the region. The fossil flora includes abundant, poorly preserved impressions of Sphenophyta that does not permit to assign a precise age, although these forms are common in the Upper Carboniferous-Permian and Triassic of Argentina.
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