Where: Argentina (54.2° S, 67.2° W: paleocoordinates 54.2° S, 67.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Holocene sediments. AGE: Holocene, 6,240 +/- 70 yrs BP (Corontao et al. 1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk,
• COLLECTORS: The authors: Gordillo, Coronato and Rabassa (2002). REPOSITORY: Quaternary mollusc collection from Tierra del Fuego (TDF-Q) at the Centro de Investigaciones Paleobiológicas (CIPAL), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
Primary reference: S. Gordillo, A. M. J. Coronato, and J. O. Rabassa. 2005. Quaternary molluscan faunas from the island of Tierra de Fuega after the Last Glacial Maximum. Scientia Marina 69(2):337-348 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71602: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Fissurella sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
Trochita pileus Lamarck 1822 slipper shell | |
Colpospirella algida Melvill and Standen 1912 turret shell | |
Pareuthria sp. Strebel 1905 true whelk | |
"Fuegotrophon pallidus" = Trophon pallidus, "Trophon geversianus" = Trophon geversianum, Xymenopsis muriciformis
"Fuegotrophon pallidus" = Trophon pallidus Broderip and Sowerby 1833 murex snail
"Trophon geversianus" = Trophon geversianum Pallas 1774 murex snail
Xymenopsis muriciformis King and Broderip 1832 murex snail | |
Laevilitorina caliginosa Gould 1850 periwinkle | |
Bivalvia | |
Cyamium sp. Philippi 1845 clam | |
Neolepton sp. Monterosato 1875 clam | |
Lasaea sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
"Protothaca antiqua" = Ameghinomya antiqua, "Retrotapes exalbidus" = Retrotapes exalbida
"Protothaca antiqua" = Ameghinomya antiqua King 1832 venus clam
"Retrotapes exalbidus" = Retrotapes exalbida Dillwyn 1817 venus clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam |