Where: Brazil (30.2° S, 50.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° S, 50.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit. THICKNESS: From drill hole of at least 45 m thick, from 3 m thick unit. AGE: Holocene, based of faunal similarity with Uruguan and Argentinian Holocene assemblages. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 36-39 m in drill hole.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: Petrobas Petroleum Company. REPOSITORY: Unknown repository, possibly the School of Geology, National Science Institute, Brazil.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72121: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.05.2007

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