Journal of Sedimentary Environments Published by Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 3 (4): 220-233. October-December, 2018 doi: 10.12957/jse.2018.39139 RESEARCH PAPER NEW MOLLUSCAN RECORDS AND PALAEOECOLOGY OF THE LATE PLEISTOCENE MARINE ASSEMBLAGE FROM LA CORONILLA (ROCHA, URUGUAY) ALEJANDRA ROJAS1*, JUAN CARLOS ZAFFARONI2 AND SERGIO MARTÍNEZ1 1 Universidad de la República, Instituto de Ciencias Geológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Paleontología, Montevideo, Uruguay 2 Sociedad Malacológica del Uruguay * CORRESPONDING AUTHOR,
[email protected] Received on 5 September 2018 Citation: Received in revised form on 28 November 2018 Rojas, A., Zaffaroni, J.C., Martínez, S., 2018. New molluscan records and Accepted on 2 December 2018 palaeoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine assemblage from La Coronilla (Rocha, Uruguay). Journal of Sedimentary Environments, 3 (4): 220-233. Editor: Leticia Burone, Universidad de la República, Uruguai Abstract The Late Pleistocene marine molluscan assemblage from La Eurytellina angulosa, Kellia sp., Paraleptopecten bavayi, and Pandora Coronilla is one of the richest Quaternary marine deposit sp. Almost all recorded species from the assemblage are from Uruguay. This contribution represents an update of the marine and live in soft bottoms, although hard/consolidated bivalve and gastropod species composition of this deposit substrate species and microgastropods that live in ecological and includes a palaeoecological analysis of the molluscan interaction with other invertebrate taxa were also found. The fauna. The ecological preferences of the recorded species high percentage of tropical-subtropical species, the absence allowed the reconstruction of the palaeoenvironmental of cold-water species, and the record of extralimital warm conditions of the eastern Uruguayan coast and the water northern species, adds new evidence for the inference palaeobiogeographic scenario of the area during the Late of warmer than present conditions in the Uruguayan coast Pleistocene.