Where: Argentina (54.8° S, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 54.8° S, 68.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Holocene sediments. AGE: Holocene, 7,518 +/- 58 yrs BP.
• 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 71601: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Mathilda aff. malvinarum snail | |
Trochita pileolus d'Orbigny 1841 slipper shell | |
Eumetula pulla snail
Eumetula michaelseni snail | |
Xymenopsis muriciformis King and Broderip 1832 murex snail | |
Savatieria frigida Rochebrune and Mabille 1885 true whelk
Pareuthria sp. Strebel 1905 true whelk | |
Eatoniella sp. Dall 1876 snail | |
Onoba sp. Adams and Adams 1834 snail | |
Margarella violacea top snail | |
"Nacella" sp. Schumacher 1817 limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
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Zygochlamys patagonica King and Broderip 1832 scallop | |
Philobrya ? sublaevis Pelseneer 1903 clam | |
Neolepton sp. Monterosato 1875 clam | |
Cyamium sp. Philippi 1845 clam | |
Lasaea sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Hiatella solida Sowerby 1834 clam |