Ostrácodos (Crustacea, Ostracoda) y carófitos (Chlorophyta, Charales) de la Formación Desencuentro (Mioceno superior), provincia de La Rioja, Argentina

CUSMINSKY, G. C.,; GARCÍA, ADRIANA; HERBST, RAFAEL

AMEGHINIANA

Ameghiniana

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2006 p. 327 - 338

0002-7014

Abstract. Ostracods (Crustacea, Ostracoda) and charophytes (Chlorophyta, Charales) from the Desencuentro Formation  (Upper Miocene), La Rioja province, Argentina.Ostracods and charophytes from the Desencuentro Formation (La Rioja Province, Argentina) are described and illustrated. The association has low diversity with six ostracod taxa: Eucypris sp., Darwinula sp., Cyamocytheridea sp., Cyprideis salebrosa hartmanni Ramírez, Limnocythere aff. L. reticulata Sharpe, Limnocythere sp. and two charophytes: Chara zeylanica s. l. Klein ex Willdenow and Chara musacchioi García sp. nov. The availability of twenty well preserved gyrogonites of Chara musacchioi sp. nov. allowed to observe the intra-populational morphological variability, to relate the new species with the extant Chara hornemannii Wallman, and to conclude that it is a new species. The assemblage indicates a calm aquatic environment with oligohaline to mesohaline water, with a possible input of fresher water, in a tropical to subtropical area, with mean temperature of about 15-20ºC.