“…How ever so far, palaeolimnological and palaeo eco logi cal anal y ses us ing subfossil Cladocera, have been mainly con ducted at high lat i tudes (Eu rope, Rus sia, Can ada, and north ern parts of the USA). Only a few stud ies on subfossil cladoceran fauna have been conducted in the south ern hemi sphere (e.g., Brazil, Chile, Uru guay, and New Zea land; Serafim et al, 2003;Iglesias et al, 2007;Coronel et al, 2007;Kotov et al, 2010;Kattel, 2010) and there is only one re cord from trop i cal North Amer ica (Mex ico) (Zawisza et al, 2012;Cuna et al, 2014).…”