Portalites is an extinct

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

acritarch Acritarchs () are organic microfossils, known from the Precambrian to the present. The classification is a catch all term used to refer to any organic microfossils that cannot be assigned to other groups. Their diversity reflects major ecolog ...

s. The species ''Portalites gondwanensis'' was located in outcrop ''Morro do Papaléo'' in the town of

Mariana Pimentel Mariana Pimentel is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located approximately 75 km from the state's capital, Porto Alegre. Geography Mariana Pimentel belongs to Porto Alegre Metropolitan Mesoregion and to Porto ...

in Brazil, the geopark Paleorrota. The outcrop is in the

Rio Bonito Formation The Rio Bonito Formation is a geological formation of the Paraná and Pelotas Basins of Permian age. It is represented by a succession of cyclic sedimentary packages of sandstones, siltstones and shales which bear extensive deposits of coal that ...

and date from

Sakmarian In the geologic timescale, the Sakmarian is an age or stage of the Permian period. It is a subdivision of the Cisuralian Epoch or Series. The Sakmarian lasted between 293.52 and million years ago (Ma). It was preceded by the Asselian and fo ...

in the

Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years, from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya. It is the s ...

. PALINOLOGIA DO MORRO DO PAPALÉO, MARIANA PIMENTEL (PERMIANO INFERIOR, BACIA DO PARANÁ), RIO GRANDE DO SUL, BRASIL
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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7231511 Acritarch genera Permian life