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Mollusk shells are the most common remains in Quaternary marine deposits throughout the Argentinean coastline and southern South America. They are well preserved and, despite the taphonomic bias (i.e., the loss of soft body taxa and post burial processes), Quaternary mollusk assemblages retain useful information about the life habits and habitats of the marine benthos from which they are derived. This chapter is centered on the analysis of the taxa composition of preserved fauna from different Pleistocene and Holocene marine outcrops, located mainly along the maritime Argentinean coast, in order to reconstruct local benthic paleocommunities inhabiting the different sub-environments throughout the Quaternary in this region.
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Gordillo, S., Bayer, M.S., Boretto, G., Charó, M. (2014). Paleoecology. In: Mollusk shells as bio-geo-archives. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03476-8_4
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