Upper Paleocene-Early Eocene mollusks of Silveirinha (Figueira da Foz, West Cen...

• Autor(es): Callapez, P.
• Data: 2010
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4730
• Origem: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Assunto(s): Upper Palaeocene; Gastropoda; Bivalvia; Silveirinha Formation; Portugal
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

A collection of fossil gastropods and bivalves assembled at the Thanetian/Ypresian vertebrate site of Silveirinha (Figueira da Foz, West Central Portugal) is analysed from the point of view of systematics and palaeoecology. The diversity is scarce but the age and exceptional characteristics of the site are factors that substantiate a detailed study. The taxa identified are: Bithynia soaresi sp. nov., Gyraulus antunesi sp. nov., Chlamys sp. and Cardiiacea gen. sp. indet. The prevailing of freshwater gastropods and the occurrence of 2 fragments of marine bivalves suggest a palaeoenvironmental setting that is in conformity with interpretations already established, which are based both in sedimentologic and vertebrate data. These interpretations point out the existence of a freshwater environment opened from time to time to marine influences, resulting from a palaeoatlantic coast placed some kilometres westwards.