Paleoenvironmental analysis of a Lower Cretaceous Paleolake from the Iguatu Basin based on its ostracod fauna and XRF

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The authors would like to thank Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Scardia and MSc. Andre Renan Costa Silva (São Paulo State University, Brazil) for their aid during field work and sample collection and MSc Michele Goulart da Silva (UNISINOS, Brazil) for the MEV imaging, XRF, TOC and total S analyses. We would also like to thank Dr. Mathias Ritter (Rio Grande do Sul University, Brazil) for his help in the development of the cluster analysis. We would like to thank Dr. David J. Horne as well as an anonymous reviewer for their invaluable comments and suggestions for this paper. Marcos Antonio would like to thank CAPES (Coordenac¸ao de Aperfeic¸oamento de Pessoal do Nível Superior) for the CAPES/Prosuc scholarship grant, proc. 88887.150703/2017-00. This study was also supported by the CAPES Projects CAPES-PVE-1° Cron.-proc. 88881.062157-2014-01 and 88887.091703/2014-01. Benjamin Sames also benefited from Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project P 27687-N29. Erik Wolfgring thanks the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Schrödinger Fellowship (J-4444B).