Palynostratigraphy and Paleobotany Laboratory

Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción (CICYTTP-CONICET)

History of the Palynostratigraphy and Paleobotany Laboratory (CICYTTP)

It was created in April 2010 after the incorporation of Dr. Mercedes di Pasquo to the CICYTTP in Diamante, with the PROGRAM OF SUBSIDIES FOR THE CHANGE OF PLACE OF WORK AND RADICATION OF RESEARCHERS OF CONICET (Res. President No. 337, 4/5/2010 and Res. Funding D1806 (15-07-2010) of the type Other). She was transferred from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA), where she was a teacher in the Geology, Biology and Paleontology (1987-2008), fellowship (1994-2001) and researcher CONICET and Deputy between 2002-2010) in the Department of Geology.

The laboratory of palynological processing consists of a system for gas extraction hood and a washing tower where the gases are neutralized to be released as oxygen to the atmosphere. This way it has an ecological system developed especially at the request of Dr. Di Pasquo, to avoid environmental contamination, possibly unique of its type that works in a laboratory of Palinology in Argentina. The research cabinet has a Leica microscope with video camera (14 Mp) and fluorescence LED equipment, and a trinocular loupe with camcorder (3Mp).

The laboratory has fossil collections of Paleobotany, Invertebrates and Paleo Pollen Collections of Reference Species (current) and others of Aeropalinology and Paleopalinology (di Pasquo and Silvestri, 2014).

As head of the Laboratory and working group, Mercedes di Pasquo develops various research tasks detailed in research lines.

Paleoforest studies of the Fanerozoic of America: Devonian-Permian from Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, Devonian and Carboniferous from Montana (USA), Cretaceous from the Neuquén Basin (Patagonia) and Argentina Antarctica, Cretaceous to Pleistocene from Colombia, Rivers.

Project

Palynological study of the current flora in the El Palmar National Park (Entre Ríos, Argentina), and its application to the vegetative changes in the Late Holocene

Related work

di Pasquo, M.M., Silvestri, L., 2014. Las colecciones de Palinología y Paleobotánica del Laboratorio de Palinoestratigrafía y Paleobotánica del Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción (CICYTTP), Entre Ríos, Argentina. Contribuição à RESCEPP “Rede Sul-americana de Coleções e Ensino em Paleobotânica e Palinologia”, Boletín de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Paleobotánica y Palinología, volumen 14, 39-47. ISSN 0325-0121.

di Pasquo, M., Rodríguez, E., Nuñez, N.. Muñoz, N., Silvestri, L. 2016. Esporas de helechos (Monilofita) y licofitas presentes en el Parque Nacional El Palmar, Provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica (en prensa, marzo 2016).

Nuñez Otaño N., di Pasquo M., Bianchinotti, M.V. 2016. The occurrence of Potamomyces palmarensis sp. nov. in the Late Holocene at the El Palmar National Park (Colón, Entre Ríos, Argentina) and transfer of fossil species of Mediaverrunites to Potamomyces” Palynology, Taylor & Francis Online available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916122.2016.1146174.

Nuñez Otaño N., di Pasquo M., Muñoz M., 2015. Airborne fungal richness: proxies for floral composition and local climate in three sites at the El Palmar National Park (Colón, Entre Ríos, Argentina). Aerobiologia (publicado online 04-2015)

Abstracts

Muñoz, N., di Pasquo, M., 2015. Análisis aeropalinológico en tres áreas de vegetación dentro del Parque Nacional El Palmar (Colón, Entre Ríos) y su relación con la vegetación local y regional. XVI Simposio Argentino de Paleobotánica y Palinología (La Plata, mayo 2015). Ameghiniana 52 (4) Suplemento 2015, Resúmenes: 7.

Nuñez Otaño, N.B., di Pasquo, M., Bianchinotti, M.V., Burr, G., 2015. Primer registro de Potamomyces Hyde en el Holoceno Tardío del Parque Nacional “El Palmar”, Entre Ríos, Argentina. XVI Simposio Argentino de Paleobotánica y Palinología (La Plata, mayo 2015). Ameghiniana 52 (4) Suplemento 2015, Resúmenes: 17.

Muñoz, N.S., Prieto, A.R., Di Pasquo, M.M., 2013. Relación polen-vegetación actual en la región pastizal-palmar del Parque Nacional El Palmar, Argentina. XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Paleobotânica e Palinologia (Río de Janeiro), Anais do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, livro 49 (Resúmenes): 120.

Nuñez Otaño, N.B., Muñoz, N.S., Di Pasquo, M.M., 2013. Análisis taxonómico preliminar de hongos presentes en tres sitios de control aeropalinológico en el Parque Nacional El Palmar (Colón, Entre Ríos, Argentina) y su relación con la flora circundante. XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Paleobotânica e Palinologia (Río de Janeiro), Anais do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, livro 49 (Resúmenes): 125.

di Pasquo M., Rodríguez E., Muñoz N., Nuñez N. 2013. Esporas de Pteridophyta del Parque Nacional El Palmar, Entre Ríos, Argentina: Taxonomía, ecología y distribución. 34 Jornadas Argentinas de Botánica (La Plata septiembre), Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, Suplemento (Abstracts), 48: 257.

Address: Dr. Matteri y España Diamante - CP E3105BWA Entre Ríos Argentina

Phone: +54 0343 4983086 - +54 0343 4983087

Website: http://palino.com.ar/

Research Subjects:

Palinofloral (and flower remains) studies of the Phanerozoic of America:
-Devonian-Permian from Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil
-Devonian and Carboniferous from Montana (USA)
-Cretaceous of Neuquén Basin (Patagonia) and Argentina Antarctica
-Cretaceous to Pleistocene from Colombia
-Holoceno of Entre Ríos

Professors:

Mercedes di Pasquo Link para Currículo Lattes