Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (33.6° S, 53.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° S, 53.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museu de Ciências Naturais of Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Paleovertebrates Collection, Porto Alegre
Primary reference: R. P. Lopes, L. R. Simone, S. R. Dillenburg, C. L. Schultz, and J. C. Pereira. 2013. A middle Pleistocene marine molluscan assemblage from the Southern coastal plain of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 16(3):343-360 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175628: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.12.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys tehuelchus" = Aequipecten tehuelchus
"Chlamys tehuelchus" = Aequipecten tehuelchus d'Orbigny 1842 scallop | |
Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Crassostrea rhizophorae Guilding 1828 oyster
"Ostrea puelchana" = Ostrea (Eostrea) puelchana d'Orbigny 1842 oyster
Ostrea equestris Say 1834 oyster | |
Noetia bisulcata Lamarck 1819 clam | |
Glycymeris longior Sowerby 1832 clam | |
"Anadara chemnitzi" = Arca chemnitzi, "Anadara brasiliana" = Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana, Lunarca ovalis
"Anadara chemnitzi" = Arca chemnitzi Philippi 1851 ark
"Anadara brasiliana" = Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana Lamarck 1819 ark
Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789 ark | |
"Corbula caribaea" = Caryocorbula caribaea, Erodona mactroides
"Corbula caribaea" = Caryocorbula caribaea d'Orbigny 1845 clam
Erodona mactroides Daudin 1802 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Bostrycapulus odites Collin 2005 slipper shell | |
Olivancillaria carcellesi olive snail
Olivancillaria urceus olive snail
Olivancillaria deshayesiana Ducros 1857 olive snail | |
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Terebra gemmulata auger snail | |
Adelomelon brasiliana volute
Zidona dufresnei Donovan 1823 volute | |
"Buccinanops duartei" = Bullia (Buccinanops), "Buccinanops gradatus" = Bullia (Buccinanops)
"Buccinanops duartei" = Bullia (Buccinanops) snail
"Buccinanops gradatus" = Bullia (Buccinanops) snail | |
"Tegula patagonica" = Agathistoma patagonicum
"Tegula patagonica" = Agathistoma patagonicum d'Orbigny 1835 snail | |
Diodora patagonica dOrbigny 1839 snail |