Integrated Geology of Unconventionals: The Case of the Vaca Muerta Play, Argentina
4 Relevant Marine Paleobiological Markers of the Vaca Muerta Formation
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Published:January 01, 2020
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Héctor A. Leanza, Verónica V. Vennari, María B. Aguirre-Urreta, Andrea Concheyro, Marina Lescano, Daria Ivanova, Diego A. Kietzmann, Rafael López-Martínez, Paula A. Martz, Melisa A. Paolillo, Verónica Guler, Ignacio Pujana, Maximiliano Paz, 2020. "4 Relevant Marine Paleobiological Markers of the Vaca Muerta Formation", Integrated Geology of Unconventionals: The Case of the Vaca Muerta Play, Argentina, Daniel Minisini, Manuel Fantín, Iván Lanusse Noguera, Héctor A. Leanza
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ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the abundant marine paleobiological markers recorded in the Vaca Muerta Formation illustrating their richness, biodiversity, and application for age dating and paleobiogeographical global correlation. The markers described include ammonites, calcareous nannofossils, calcisphaeres (calcareous dinoflagellate cysts), calpionellids, coprolites, dinoflagellates, radiolarians, saccocomid microcrinoids, and trace fossils. Traditionally, the ammonites have been the best known and most relevant macroinvertebrate fossil group. Nevertheless, in the past decade, the exploration of the Vaca Muerta unconventional play has boosted the research on the micropaleontology of the area determining an extensive growth in knowledge and reported here.
- algae
- Ammonoidea
- Berriasian
- biodiversity
- biomarkers
- biostratigraphy
- biozones
- black shale
- calcareous composition
- Calpionellidae
- carbon
- Cephalopoda
- clastic rocks
- coprolites
- correlation
- Cretaceous
- Crinoidea
- Crinozoa
- Dinoflagellata
- Echinodermata
- ichnofossils
- invertebrates
- Jurassic
- Lower Cretaceous
- marine environment
- Mediterranean region
- Mesozoic
- microfossils
- Mollusca
- mudstone
- nannofossils
- nomenclature
- organic carbon
- paleobiology
- palynomorphs
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- preservation
- Radiolaria
- sedimentary rocks
- stratigraphic boundary
- Tintinnidae
- Tithonian
- Upper Jurassic
- Vaca Muerta Formation
- Valanginian
- Tintinnida
- unconventional reservoirs