title: Microfossils in micrites from Serra da Bodoquena (MS), Brazil: taxonomy and paleoenvironmental implications.
abstract: Microfossils present in Quaternary micrites from Serra da Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil, are here described for the first time. The studied taxa are: a) ostracods: Candona sp., Candonopsis sp., Cyclocypris sp., Cypria sp., Cypridopsis sp., Notodromas sp., Ilyocypris sp., Cyprideis sp., Wolburgiopsis cf. chinamuertensis (Musacchio 1970), Darwinula sp. and 5 morphotypes; b) microgastropod Acrobis sp., and c) Characeae remains and gyrogonites Chara sp.. The presence of these microfossils suggests clear-water shallow lacustrine paleoenvironments and the presence of aquatic vegetation. Similarities between microfossils and the living taxa suggest possible Holocene ages for these deposits, which is in accordance with previous C(14) dates.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-graduação em Geoquímica e Geotectônica, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. giselleutida@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Giselle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Utida
authors.forename: Setembrino
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Petri
authors.forename: Emiliano C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Paulo C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Boggiani
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D044522:Characeae; D003445:Crustacea; D004777:Environment; D005580:Fossils; D049851:Gastropoda; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000032:analysis*; D010163:Paleontology