Abstract
A new gastropod fauna is reported from Chubut province of west-central Patagonia. Members of Trochoidea, Pseudomelanoidea, Campaniloidea, and Nerinoidea are recorded from the Early Jurassic (Late Pliensbachian—Early Toarcian) of Mulanguineu Formation. The gastropod fauna consists of two new species: the pseudomelaniid Pseudumelania feruglioi sp. nov. and the protorculid Anulifera chubutensis sp. nov. Other members of the association are Pseudumelania sp.; the ampulloispirids Globularia cf. catanlilensis, Globularia sp., and Naricopsina? sp.; the nerineids Nerinea? sp. 1 and Nerinea? sp. 2; the trochids Lithotrochus humblodtii, Lithotruchus cf. rothi, and two indeterminable trochids species. An analysis of diversity was made considering all gastropod fauna recovered so far from five fossiliferous localities sampled in west-central Patagonia. The preliminary results of this study suggests that the Jurassic marine sequences of west central Chubut province are dominated by gastropods of Eucyclidae, Pseudomela...
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