Publications-La Colonia

References for the La Colonia Formation Biota

Archangelsky, A., C. J. Phipps, T. N. Taylor, and E. L. Taylor. 1999. Paleoazolla, a new heterosporous fern from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. American Journal of Botany 86: 1200-1206.

Clyde, W.C., J.M. Krause, F. De Benedetti, J. Ramezani, N.R. Cúneo, M.A. Gandolfo, P. Haber, C. Whelan, and T. Smith. 2021. New South American record of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary interval (La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina), Cretaceous Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104889.

Cúneo N. R., M. A. Gandolfo, M. C. Zamaloa, and E. Hermsen. 2014. Late Cretaceous Aquatic Plant World in Patagonia, Argentina. PLoS ONE 9(8): e104749. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104749.

Cúneo, N. R., E. J. Hermsen, and M. A. Gandolfo. 2013. Regnellidium (Salviniales, Marsileaceae) Macrofossils and Associated Spores from the Late Cretaceous of South America. International Journal of Plant Sciences, Special Issue: Conceptual Advances in Fossil Plant Biology, Eds. G. Rothwell and R. Stockey; Thomas N. Taylor Diamond Jubilee, 174 (3): 340-349.

De Benedetti, F., M. C. Zamaloa, M. A. Gandolfo, and N. R. Cúneo. 2018. Heterosporous ferns from Patagonia: The case of Azolla. Transformative Paleobotany, 361-373.

De Benedetti, F., M.C. Zamaloa, M.A. Gandolfo, and N.R. Cúneo. 2021. Water fern spores (Salviniales) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 290: 104428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104428

Estrada-Ruiz, E., G. R. Upchurch Jr., J. A. Wolfe, and S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz. 2011. Comparative morphology of fossil and extant leaves of Nelumbonaceae, including a new genus from the Late Cretaceous of western North America. Systematic Botany 36: 337-351.

Gallego, J., M. A. Gandolfo, N. R. Cúneo, and M. C. Zamaloa. 2014. Fossil Araceae from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina, with implications on the origin of free-floating aquatic aroids. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 211: 78–86.

Gandolfo, M. A. and R. N. Cuneo. 2005. Fossil Nelumbonaceae from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian–Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 133 (3-4): 169-178.

Gandolfo, M. A., R. N. Cuneo, and E. J. Hermsen. 2014. Reporte preliminar sobre la paleoflora de la Formación La Colonia (Campaniano-Maastrichtiano, Cretácico tardío), Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 66: 11-23.

Hermsen, E. J., M. A. Gandolfo, and N. R. Cúneo. 2014. New marsileaceous fossils from the Late Cretaceous of South America and a reevaluation of Marsileaceaephyllum. Plant Systematics and Evolution 300: 369-386.

Hermsen, E. J., , N. A. Jud, F. De Benedetti, and M. A. Gandolfo, 2019. Azolla Sporophytes and Spores from the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. International Journal of Plant Sciences 180 (7): 737–754.

Prámparo, M. B., M. Quattrocchio, M. A. Gandolfo, M. C. Zamaloa, and E. Romero. 2007. Historia evolutiva de las angiospermas (Cretácico-Paleógeno) en Argentina a través de los registros paleoflorísticos. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Publicación Especial 11: 157-172.



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