Author(s)

Oscar F. Gallego^1*, Mateo D. Monferran¹, Victoria C. Jiménez¹, Iracema A. Zacarías¹, Claudia Armella², Diego Silva Nieto³, Nora G. Cabaleri²

¹Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral (CECOAL-CONICET-UNNE) and área Ciencias de la Tierra, Departamento de Biología, 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 from northeast Brazil to southern Patagonia Argentina. It is characterized by having been a relatively warm climate, with rainfall and marked seasonality which allowed the development of the “conchostracan” populations.

Cretaceous, Climate, Fossil Record, South America

Gallego, O. , Monferran, M. , Jiménez, V. , Zacarías, I. , Armella, C. , Nieto, D. and Cabaleri, N. (2019) The Cretaceous Period of Weather Similar to the Present One and Its Diverse “Conchostracan” Fauna. Open Journal of Geology, 9, 704-706. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2019.910080.