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The present paper records almost two-thirds more species in the Holocene than in the Pleistocene, as a consequence of three main factors: 1—the Pleistocene is under-represented, with a less number of recognized deposits than the Holocene; 2—the rather bad preservation of Pleistocene shells; 3—there are still many Pleistocene deposits that have not been yet numerically dated (surely proportionally more than Holocene ones), and for this reason, they were excluded from the analysis carried out herein.
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Martínez, S., del Río, C.J., Rojas, A. (2013). Final Remarks. In: Biogeography of the Quaternary Molluscs of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6055-4_7
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