Late Pleistocene mollusc assemblages and inferred paleoenvironments from the Andean piedmont of Mendoza, Argentina

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 251, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 461-469

  De Francesco, Claudio G ^a   Zárate, Marcelo A ^b   Miquel, Sergio E ^c  

^a UNMdP CIC)   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

^c MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Andean piedmont of Mendoza; Argentina; Late Pleistocene; Marine isotope stage 3; Molluscs; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

ANDEAN OROGENY; MOLLUSC; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SNAIL; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARGENTINA; MENDOZA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA PEREGRINA; CHAROPIDAE; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEIDAE; MOLLUSCA; PLANORBIDAE; RADIODISCUS; STYLOMMATOPHORA; SUCCINEA; SUCCINEIDAE;

EID: 34447273296     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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