New Early Jurassic gastropods from west-central Patagonia, Argentina
A new gastropod fauna is reported from Chubut province of west−central Patagonia. Members of Trochoidea, Pseudo−melanoidea, Campaniloidea, and Nerinoidea are recorded from the Early Jurassic (Late Pliensbachian–Early Toarcian) of Mulanguińeu Formation. The gastropod fauna consists of two new species...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2012 |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Institution: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repository: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/1627 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/1627 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Gastopoda Mulanguiñeu Formation Early Jurassic Patagonia Chubut Toarcian Argentina https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Summary: | A new gastropod fauna is reported from Chubut province of west−central Patagonia. Members of Trochoidea, Pseudo−melanoidea, Campaniloidea, and Nerinoidea are recorded from the Early Jurassic (Late Pliensbachian–Early Toarcian) of Mulanguińeu Formation. The gastropod fauna consists of two new species: the pseudomelaniid Pseudomelania feruglioisp. nov. and the protorculid Anulifera chubutensissp. nov. Other members of the association are Pseudomelania sp.; the ampulloispirids Globularia cf. catanlilensis, Globularia sp., and Naricopsina? sp.; the nerineids Nerinea? sp. 1 and Nerinea? sp. 2; the trochids Lithotrochus humblodtii, Lithotrochus cf.rothi, and two indeterminable trochids species. An analysis of diversity was made considering all gastropod fauna recovered so far from five fossiliferous localities sam− pled in west−central Patagonia. The preliminary results of this study suggests that the Jurassic marine sequences of west central Chubut province are dominated by gastropods of Eucyclidae, Pseudomelaniidae, Procerithiidae, and Ampul− linidae groups. However, the rarefaction curves of particular marine gastropod faunas in the Jurassic of Patagonia are still far from saturation requiring further collecting effort. |
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