“…The knowledge of the marine Quaternary malacofauna has largely been increased by the pioneering studies of Frenguelli (1928Frenguelli ( , 1945Frenguelli ( , 1950Frenguelli ( , 1957 and Richards and Craig (1963), among others. In Argentina, contributions in the study of marine shell fossils were numerous: concerning paleobiogeographic studies (e.g., Aguirre, 1993;Gordillo, 1998;Aguirre et al, , 2005Aguirre et al, , 2006Aguirre and Farinati, 1999;Gordillo et al, 2008;Charó, 2014); taphonomic studies (e.g., Cárdenas and Gordillo, 2009;Gordillo, 2009;Aguirre et al 2011;Boretto et al, 2013;Bayer et al, 2016); and bioerosion traces studies (eg., Farinati et al, 2006;Arregui et al, 2009;Charó et al, 2012bCharó et al, , 2015aCharó et al, -d, 2017Gordillo and Archubi, 2012;Richiano et al, 2012Richiano et al, , 2014Richiano et al, , 2015Richiano et al, , 2017Martinelli et al, 2013).…”