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Early Pliocene gastropod diversity from the central eastern Pacific Ocean, Mexico (Guerrero) and their paleogeographical interpretation

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We report on an early Pliocene marine gastropod assemblage from Guerrero State, Mexico. Sixty-three gastropod species were identified and used to interpret their paleogeographic significance. From this assemblage, 15 species are reported as fossils for the first time, and 10 have not been previously reported older than early Pleistocene. The genus Conasprella is reported in the eastern Pacific for the first time. Bursa rugosa, Conus patricius, and Eupleura muriciformis are paciphile species, with a distribution on both sides of the Isthmus of Panama prior to the closure of the Central American Seaway, but distributed during the recent only in the Pacific. In addition, Architectonica nobilis and Distortio decussata were present in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans during the Pliocene. These gastropods help to bridge a huge gap, between Nicaragua and southern California, USA, in fossil molluscan occurrences from the eastern Pacific part of the Tertiary Caribbean faunal province. They help document the early Pliocene Tertiary Caribbean faunal province in southern Mexico in the eastern Pacific before the final closure of the Isthmus of Panama during the late Pliocene.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Martha Reguero Reza (Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Alan Beu (Emeritus paleontologist, GNS Science, New Zealand), and Charles L. Powell (Emeritus, USGS) for their help with the taxonomic problems. A special recognizance to Charles L. Powell for his invaluable help on this paper. We also thank Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) for support to the second author. We are also grateful to Alan Beu, Aaron O’Dea (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute), and an anonymous reviewer for their valuable suggestions and advices to improve this paper.

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This study was supported by the Secretaria de Educación Pública (SEP-PROMEP) Project “Aplicación de los moluscos (bivalvos y gasterópodos) del Neógeno (Plioceno) como proxies para cuantificar los efectos a mediano plazo del cambio climático en las zonas costeras en Guerrero, México”.

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  1. Escuela Superior de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Ex Hacienda San Juan Bautista S/N, 40323, Taxco el Viejo, Guerrero, Mexico

    Catalina Gómez-Espinosa, Luis Antonio Flores de Dios & Oscar Talavera-Mendoza

  2. Escuela Superior de Ecología Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Avenida Gran Vía Tropical No 20, Fraccionamiento Las Playas, 39385, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico

    Claudia Gabriela Ortíz-Jerónimo

  3. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

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Gómez-Espinosa, C., Ortíz-Jerónimo, C.G., Gío-Argaez, F.R. et al. Early Pliocene gastropod diversity from the central eastern Pacific Ocean, Mexico (Guerrero) and their paleogeographical interpretation. Arab J Geosci 14, 196 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-06492-x

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