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Patagonia as a biodiversity refugia during the end-Cretaceous global crisis: a palynological study from South America
Project summary:
Study the taxonomic composition of the La Colonia Formation palynological assemblages and compare them with contemporary associations known from the Southern Hemisphere to evaluate the major changes across the K/Pg transition. Increase the macrofossil collection of water fern and other plants from previously known and potential new fossiliferous localities from the La Colonia Formation.
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Bachelor Degree in Paleontology
Year obtained:
2015
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Argentina
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Relevant publications (minimum 1, maximum 4):
De Benedetti, F., Zamaloa, M.C., Gandolfo, M.A., and Cúneo, N.R., 2018. Heterosporous ferns from Patagonia: the case of Azolla. In M. Krings, C.J. Harper, N.R. Cúneo, G.W. Rothwell, eds. Transformative paleobotany: Papers to commemorate the life and legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. Pages 361–373. Academic Press, London and Oxford, U.K., and San Diego and Cambridge, U.S.A.
Hermsen, E.J., Jud, N.A., De Benedetti, F., and Gandolfo, M.A., 2019. Azolla sporophytes and spores from the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180(7), 737–754.
De Benedetti, F., Zamaloa, M.C., Gandolfo, M.A., and Cúneo, N.R., 2020. Reinterpretation of Paleoazolla: a heterosporous water fern from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. American Journal of Botany, 107(7), 1–18.
Clyde, W.C., Krause, J.M., De Benedetti, F., Ramezani, J., Cúneo, N.R., Gandolfo, M.A., Haber, P., Whelan, C., Smith, T., (accepted manuscript). New South American record of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina). Cretaceous Research
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2000
Paleontological Museum Egidio Feruglio
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Facundo De Benedetti