Lontras Shale (Paraná Basin, Brazil): Insightful analysis and commentaries on paleoenvironment and fossil preservation into a deglaciation pulse of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age

The Lontras Shale is a fossil site located in Mafra, Santa Catarina, south of Brazil. This Late Paleozoic (Pennsilvanian - Cisularian) stratum holds an important place with great potential for the synthesis of knowledge about paradigmatic events that happened on Gondwana. This marine fossil site, preserved into a 1.1 m black shale, comprises a combination of different kinds of preservation, in broad taphonomical spectra, including hard and/or...