Cist-1-RS (30-36 m) - Rio Grande do Sul: Holocene, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Epitonium (Epitonium) georgettina (Kiener 1838)
1 specimen
recombined as Epitonium georgettinum
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Tectonatica pusilla (Say 1822)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella (Olivina) tehuelchana (d'Orbigny 1841)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Anachis (Anachis) catenata
1 specimen
Anachis cf. isabellei
7 specimens
Anachis (Costoanachis) avara (Say 1822)
2 specimens
Colombella avara
Gastropoda - Hydrobiidae
Littoridina australis (d'Orbigny 1837)
2 specimens
recombined as Heleobia australis
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonilla cf. atypha
1 specimen
Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) interrupta (Totten 1835)
1 specimen
recombined as Turbonilla interrupta
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax hanleyanus Philippi 1845
1 specimen
synonym of Donax hilairea
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil
Coordinates: 32.2° South, 52.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° South, 52.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit. THICKNESS: From drill hole of at least 231 m thick, from 6 m thick unit. AGE: Holocene, based of faunal similarity with Uruguan and Argentinian Holocene assemblages. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 30-36 m in drill hole.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology, presumably from unlithified siliciclastic facies. LITHIFICATION: Presumably unlithified given age and figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow siliciclastic marine environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Petrobas Petroleum Company. REPOSITORY: Unknown repository, possibly the School of Geology, National Science Institute, Brazil.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. Other groups not discussed. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with subgenus and species level designations, but nevertheless somewhat antiquated.
Metadata
Database number:72126
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-05-25 07:51:08 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-05-25 07:51:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24412. I. R. da Silva Forti. 1969. Cenozoic Mollusks from the drillholes Cassino and Palmares do Sul of the Coastal Plain of Rio Grande do Sul. Iheringia Geologia 2:55-155 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]