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Stephania palaeosudamericana is an extinct species of angiosperm from the middle to late Paleocene of South America.[1]
| Stephania palaeosudamericana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Menispermaceae |
| Genus: | Stephania |
| Species: | S. palaeosudamericana
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| Binomial name | |
| Stephania palaeosudamericana Herrera et al. 2011
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Distribution
editFossils of the species have been found in the Bogotá Formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense and the Cerrejón Formation of the Cesar-Ranchería Basin, Colombia.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ Herrera et al., 2011
- ^ Bogotá Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cerrejón Formation at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography
edit- Herrera, F.; Manchester, S.R.; Hoot, S.B.; Wefferling, K.M.; Carvalho, M.R.; Jaramillo, Carlos J. (2011), "Phytogeographic implications of fossil endocarps of Menispermaceae from the Paleocene of Colombia", American Journal of Botany, 98 (12): 2004–2017, doi:10.3732/ajb.1000461, PMID 22114219, retrieved 2019-02-28
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