Estudio microflorístico de las formaciones Potrerillos y Cacheuta (Triásico) en el sur del cerro Cacheuta, Mendoza, Argentina. Parte 1
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Resumen. En dos secciones aflorantes al sur del cerro Cacheuta, provincia de Mendoza, en las sedimentitas triásicas de las Formaciones Potrerillos y Cacheuta, se identificaron 85 especies de esporas, granos de polen y algas clorococales. En esta primera parte se da un resumen del contexto geológico basado en un detallado estudio sedimentológico previo que indica condiciones paleoambientales continentales fluvio/lacustres para ambas unidades en conjunto. Se analiza y reubica la procedencia estratigráfica de los clásicos niveles plantíferos y de las microfloras previamente estudiadas en las “Minas de Petróleo” del cerro Cacheuta. En esta contribución se listan e ilustran 38 especies de esporas de briófitas y pteridófitas de ambas palinofloras, de las cuales se describen sistemáticamente sólo especies que se citan por primera vez para ambas formaciones y/o para el Triásico de Argentina y aquéllas que revisten importancia cronoestratigráfica. Diez especies pertenecientes a los géneros Anapiculatisporites, Antulsporites, Clavatisporites, Densoisporites, Foveosporites, Matonisporites, Neoraistrickia, Raistrickia, Rugulatisporites y Uvaesporites se registran por primera vez para el Triásico de la Cuenca Cuyana. Se presentan las afinidades botánicas conocidas de las mioesporas y se comparan con los grupos vegetales de la megaflora local. La diversidad taxonómica está representada por 38 especies de esporas de briófitas y pteridófitas versus 13 especies conocidas de la megaflora, evidenciando que la biodiversidad microflorística es mayor que la megaflorística. Abstract. MICROFLORISTIC STUDY OF THE POTRERILLOS AND CACHEUTA FORMATIONS (TRIASSIC) SOUTHERN CACHEUTA HILL, MENDOZA, ARGENTINA. PART 1.At two outcropping sections, south of the Cacheuta hill, Mendoza province, in the Triassic clastic sediments of the Potrerillos and Cacheuta formations, 85 species of spores, pollen grains and chlorococcales algae were identified. In this first part the geologic context is briefly considered and the continental fluvial/lacustrine paleoenvironmental interpretation for both units is based on earlier sedimentologic study. The stratigraphic position of the classic plant levels and previously known microfossil flora from the “Minas de Petroleo”, Cacheuta hill, is analized and relocated. In this first contribution thirty eight species of bryophyte and pteridophyte spores from both palynofloras are listed and illustrated, from which those species registered for the first time for both formations and for the Triassic of Argentina and those of chronostratigraphic importance are described systematicaly. Ten species belonging to the genera Anapiculatisporites, Antulsporites, Clavatisporites, Densoisporites, Foveosporites, Matonisporites, Neoraistrickia, Raistrickia, Rugulatisporites and Uvaesporites are new records for the Triassic of the Cuyo Basin. The known botanical affinities of the miospores are presented and compared with the local megaflora species. The taxonomic diversity is represented by 38 species of spores versus 13 species of bryophyte and pteridophyte plant remains known from the megaflora, thus the microfloristic biodiversity is larger than the megafloristic one.Downloads
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