Lower Cretaceous floras from northwestern Gondwana.

I’m a geologist and paleobotanist from Colombia, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Mason-Gamer Lab. Also working with Field Museum staff in the Herrera paleobotany Lab.

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About me

WORKING WITH

University of Illinois Chicago

Mason-Gamer Lab

The Field Museum

Herrera Paleobotany Lab

RESEARCH FOCUS

What did forests at low latitudes look like 120 million years ago?.

My work combines fieldwork, systematic paleobotany, and museum collections to reconstruct Lower Cretaceous floras from northwestern Gondwana, using micro CT scans and traditional techniques.

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Recent work

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2026

A new Agathoxylon record from the Late Jurassic Girón Group of Colombia

Journal article

2026

A Century of Paradox: Reinvestigating Paradoxopterid Ferns with New Material from the Early Cretaceous of Northwestern Gondwana

Journal article

2025

A new conifer record from the late Aptian of La Paja Formation from Veléz, Santander (Colombia)

Journal article

Let’s talk paleobotany.

Open to collaborations, fieldwork, and outreach.

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