Archaeocyaths from South America: Review and a new record

• Main Authors: Naipauer, Maximiliano, Sato, Ana María
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Archaeocyaths; Buenos Aires; Gondwana; Late Palaeozoic glaciations; Sierras Australes; South America; biostratigraphy; Cambrian; Carboniferous; diamictite; fossil record; glaciation; invertebrate; limestone; new record; Ordovician; paleogeography; paleontology; provenance; reconstruction; sessile species; species occurrence; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Archaeocyatha; Antarctic; Argentina; East Antarctica; Fitzroy; Patagonia; Shackleton; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00721050_v48_n2-3_p114_Gonzalez; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00721050_v48_n2-3_p114_Gonzalez

In South America, autochthonous archaeocyathan faunas preserved in Early Cambrian limestones have not been found yet. Nevertheless, a few well-documented occurrences of these fossils in clasts contained in coarse-grained rocks of a wide age range have been discovered in recent years. Erratic limesto...