Also known as Nova Brasilia
Where: Nova Brasilia, Brazil (28.2° S, 48.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.2° S, 48.7° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• 4 km long, 420 m wide deposit; thickness varying between 0.6 and 6.0 m. Radiocardbon ages of shells from this deposit indicate an age or 4,490 +/- 200 yrs BP.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Listed based on review of previous literature. Not collected in this study
Primary reference: F. Caruso Jr, K. Suguio, and T. Nakamura. 2000. The Quaternary geological history of the Santa Catarina southeastern region (Brazil). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 72(2) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 43706: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell | |
Cerithium stratum cerith snail | |
Nassarius viabex snail | |
"Cerithiopsis greeni" = Cerithiopsis greenii
"Cerithiopsis greeni" = Cerithiopsis greenii Adams 1839 snail Spelling error; listed as "Cerithiopis"=Cerithiopsis
| |
Heleobia australis d'Orbigny 1837 snail | |
Bulla striata BruguiƩre 1792 snail | |
Neritina virginea Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea equestris Say 1834 oyster | |
"Codakia costata" = Parvilucina costata
"Codakia costata" = Parvilucina costata d'Orbigny 1846 clam | |
Anomalocardia brasiliana Gmelin 1792 venus clam | |
"Tellina (Eurytellina) lineata" = Eurytellina lineata
"Tellina (Eurytellina) lineata" = Eurytellina lineata Turton 1819 tellin clam |