Carmen Silva Macrofossil Taxon List

Compiled from Dusén (1907), Romero & Dibbern (1985), and Gandolfo (1994). Species will be added as research continues.

FERNS

      Undescribed ferns

SPERMATOPHYTA

Subclass: Pinidae (the conifers)

Order: Araucariales

      Family: Podocarpaceae
      Saxegothopsis fuegianus Dusén

Undescribed gymnosperms

Subclass Magnoliidae (the angiosperms)

Clade: Eudicots

Superorder: Proteanae

Order: Proteales

      Family: Proteaceae
      "Proteaceae", undescribed leaf

Superorder: Magnolianae

Order: Laurales

      Family: Atherospermataceae
      Atherospermophyllum sp., leaf.

      Family: Lauraceae
      Laurelia guiñazui (Berry) Caviglia, leaf

Superorder: Rosanae (the rosids)

Clade: Fabids/Eurosid I

Order: Fagales

      Family: Fagaceae
      Fagus integrifolia Dusén
      Fagus subferruginea Dusén
      Fagus, young leaves

      Family: Nothofagaceae
      ?Nothofagus australis Dusén
      Nothofagus crenulata Caviglia, leaf
      Nothofagus "densinervosa", leaf
      Nothofagus dicksoni, Caviglia, leaf
      Nothofagus elongata Dusén
      Nothofagus gonzalezi (Tanai) Caviglia, leaf
      Nothofagus integrifolia, leaf
      ?Nothofagus magelhaenica Engelhardt
      Nothofagus serrulata Dusén
      ?Nothofagus simplicidens Dusén
      Nothofagus variabilis Dusén
      "Nothofagus sp. 1-3", leaves

Order: Oxalidales

      Family: Cunoniaceae
      "Cunoniaceae", undescribed leaf

Other eudicots

      Escalloniiphyllum Dusén
      Hydrangeiphyllum affine Dusén

Dicots—affinities uncertain

      Undescribed leaves: morphotypes E 1-6 (entire margins)
      Undescribed leaves: morphotypes NE 1-27 (nonentire margins)
      Morphotypes CS 1-11, Caviglia