Update and importance of the Carboniferous and Permian paleontological records of the Tarija Basin

DI PASQUO, MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES

4º European Meeting on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Latin American

Instituto Geológico y Minero de España

Lugar: Madrid; Año: 2007; p. 107 - 112

The Tarija Basin embraces the northern of Argentina, south of Bolivia and west of Paraguay. Upper Palaeozoic deposits crop mainly out in Argentina and southernmost of Bolivia in the Subandean Range and, to a lesser extent in the eastern part of the Cordillera Oriental and they extend in the subsurface until the Chaco-Salteña Plain (figure 1; Azcuy and di Pasquo, 2000; Starck and del Papa, 2006). More recent palaeontological information and its importance is summarised as follows.