Where: Argentina (44.8° S, 65.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Pleistocene marine terrace deposits. THICKNESS: Unknown thickness. AGE: Middle Pleistocene (92-135 ka). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within terrace deposit.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, coarse-grained, pebbly, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• COLLECTORS: Presumably M. L. Aguirre and others (c. 2000's). REPOSITORY: Presumably, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Primary reference: M. L. Aguirre, S. Richiano, and Y. Negro Sirch. 2006. Paleoenvrionments and paleoclimates of the Quaternary molluscan faunas from the coastal area of BahÃa Vera-Camarones (Chubut, Patagonia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 229:251-286 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71607: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Gastropoda | |
"Tegula atra" = Chlorostoma atrum
"Tegula atra" = Chlorostoma atrum Lesson 1830 top snail | |
Fissurella picta snail
Fissurella radiosa snail | |
Trophon varians murex snail | |
Pareuthria plumbea true whelk | |
"Buccinanops globulosus" = Bullia (Buccinanops)
"Buccinanops globulosus" = Bullia (Buccinanops) snail | |
Crepidula protea, "Crepidula dilatata" = Crepipatella dilatata
Crepidula protea d'Orbigny 1941 slipper shell
"Crepidula dilatata" = Crepipatella dilatata Lamarck 1822 slipper shell | |
Nacella magellanica Gmelin 1791 limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
"Protothaca antiqua" = Ameghinomya antiqua
"Protothaca antiqua" = Ameghinomya antiqua King 1832 venus clam | |
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) purpuratus, Brachidontes (Brachidontes) rodriguezi, "Mytilus (Mytilus) edulis" = Mytilus edulis
"Mytilus (Mytilus) edulis" = Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel |