Author(s)

Oscar Gallego^1*, Nora Cabaleri², Claudia Armella², Mateo Monferran¹, Victoria Jiménez¹, Iracema Zacarías¹, Diego Silva Nieto³

¹Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral (CECOAL-CONICET-UNNE), Corrientes, Argentina.
²Instituto de Geocronología y Geología Isotópica (INGEIS-CONICET-UBA), Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
³Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Cretaceous System is widely represented in South America. “Conchostracans” are best represented with 47 early Cretaceous species and only 5 Late Cretaceous ones. Its warm climate with rainfall and marked seasonality allowed the development of the “conchostracan” populations. This information shows that more detailed analysis between climate and “conchostracan” records is needed to reconstruct environments in the Cretaceous times.

“Conchostraca”, Cretaceous, Climate, Fossil Record, South America

Gallego, O. , Cabaleri, N. , Armella, C. , Monferran, M. , Jiménez, V. , Zacarías, I. and Nieto, D. (2019) “Conchostracan” Records from Western Gondwana Related to Cretaceous Palaeoclimatic Features. Open Journal of Geology, 9, 616-618. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2019.910056.