An unusual new gastropod from an Eocene hydrocarbon seep in Washington state

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 188-191

  Kiel, Steffen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; GASTROPOD; HYDROCARBON SEEP; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NEW GENUS; SHELL; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

GASTROPODA;

EID: 38549139554     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/06-029.1     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. ABBOTT, R. T. 1960. The genus Strombus in the Indopacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 1:33-146.
2. ANTON, H. E. 1838. Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Herrmann Eduard Anton befinden. Privately published, Halle, 110 p.
3. BANDEL, K. 2005. Living fossils among tiny Allogastropoda with high and slender shell from the reef environment of the Gulf of Aqaba with remarks on fossil and recent relatives. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg, 89:1-24.
4. BANDEL, K. AND S. KIEL. 2000. Earliest known (Campanian) members of the Vermetidae, Provannidae and Litiopidae (Cerithioidea, Gastropoda), and a discussion of their possible relationships. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg, 84:209-218.
5. BANDEL, K. AND T. KOWALKE. 1997. Cretaceous Laxispira and a discussion on the monophyly of vermetids and turritellids (Caenogastropoda. Mollusca). Geologica et Palaeontologica, 31:257-274.
6. BOUCHET, P. 1991. New records and species of Abyssochrysos (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda). Journal of Natural History, 25:305-313.
7. BOUCHET, P. AND A. WARÉN. 1991. Ifremeria nautilei, nouveau gastéropode d'évents hydothermaux, probablement associté à des bactéries symbiontiques. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, 312:495-501.
8. CAMPBELL, K. A. 2006. Hydrocarbon seep and hydrothermal vent paleoenvironments and paleontology: Past developments and future research directions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 232:362-407.
9. CLARK, B. L. 1925. Pelecypoda from the marine Oligocene of western North America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, 15:69-136.
10. CLARKE, A. H. 1989. New mollusks from undersea oil seep sites off Louisiana. Malacology Data Net, 2:122-134.
11. CORLISS, J. B., J. DYMOND, L. I. GORDON, J. M. EDMOND, R. P. VON HERZEN, R. D. BALLARD, K. GREEN, D. WILLIAMS, A. BAINBRIDGE, K. CRANE, AND T. H. VAN ANDEL. 1979. Submarine thermal springs on the Galápagos Rift. Science, 203:1073-1083.
12. COX, L. R. 1959. Thoughts on the classification of the Gastropoda. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 33:239-261.
13. CUVIER, G. L. C. F. D. 1797. Table Élémentaire de l'Historie Naturelle des Animaux. Baudouin, Paris, 710 p.
14. FRÝDA, J. AND K. BANDEL. 1997. New Early Devonian gastropods from the Plectonotus (Boucotonotus)- Palaeozygopleura Community in the Prague Basin (Bohemia). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg, 80:1-57.
15. GILL, F. L., I. C. HARDING, C. T. S. LITTLE, AND J. A. TODD. 2005. Palaeogene and Neogene cold seep communities in Barbados, Trinidad and Venezuela: An overview. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 227:191-209.
16. GOEDERT, J. L. AND K. L. KALER. 1996. A new species of Abyssochrysos (Gastropoda: Loxonematoidea) from a Middle Eocene cold-seep carbonate in the Humptulips Formation, western Washington. The Veliger, 39:65-70.
17. GOEDERT, J. L. AND R. L. SQUIRES. 1990. Eocene deep-sea communities in localized limestones formed by subduction-related methane seeps, southwestern Washington. Geology, 18:1182-1185.
18. GOEDERT, J. L., V. THIEL, O. SCHMALE, W. W. RAU, W. MICHAELIS, AND J. PECKMANN. 2003. The late Eocene 'Whiskey Creek' methane-seep deposit (western Washington State) Part I: Geology, palaeontology, and molecular geobiology. Facies, 48:223-240.
19. GRAY, J. E. 1840. Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum, London, 370 p.
20. GRAY, M. E. 1842-1857. Figures of Molluscous Animals. Volumes 5. London.
21. HICKMAN, C. S. 1976. Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleogene of the eastern Pacific. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 70:1-119.
22. HOUBRICK, R. S. 1979. Classification and systematic relationships of the Abyssochrysidae, a relict family of bathyal snails (Prosobranchia: Gastropoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 290:1-21.
23. KIEL, S. 2006. New records and species of mollusks from Tertiary cold-seep carbonates in Washington State, U.S.A. Journal of Paleontology, 80:121-137.
24. KIEL, S. AND C. T. S. LITTLE. 2006. Cold seep mollusks are older than the general marine mollusk fauna. Science, 313:1429-1431.
25. KILLEEN, I. J. AND P. G. OLIVER. 2000. A new species of Abyssochrysos (Gastropoda: Loxonematiodea) from the Oman margin. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 66:95-98.
26. KNIGHT, J. B. 1930. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier. Journal of Paleontology, 4(Supplement 1):1-89.
27. KOKEN, E. 1889. Über die Entwicklung der Gastropoden vom Cambrium bis zur Trias. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Paläontologie, und Geologie, Beilage-Band, 6:305-484.
28. LINNAEUS, C. V. 1758. Systema Naturae (tenth edition). Laurrentii Salvii, Holmiae, 824 p.
29. LITTLE, C. T. S. AND R. C. VRIJENHOEK. 2003. Are hydrothermal vent animals living fossils? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 18:582-588.
30. MARWICK, J. 1957. Generic revision of the Turritellidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 32:144-166.
31. MORONI, M. A. 1966. Malacofauna del "Calcare a Lucine" di S. Sofia - Forlì. Palaeontographica Italica, 40:69-87.
32. NÜTZEL, A. 1998. Über die Stammesgeschichte der Ptenoglossa (Gastropoda). Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Reihe E, 26:1-229, 235 pls.
33. NÜTZEL, A. AND K. BANDEL. 2000. Goniasmidae and Orthonemidae: Two new families of Palaeozoic Caenogastropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2000:557-569.
34. OKUTANI, T. AND S. OHTA. 1988. A new gastropod mollusk associated with hydrothermal vents in the Mariana Back-Arc Basin, Western Pacific. Venus, 47:1-9.
35. PECKMANN, J., J. L. GOEDERT, V. THIEL, W. MICHAELIS, AND J. REITNER. 2002. A comprehensive approach to the study of methane-seep deposits from the Lincoln Creek Formation, western Washington State, U.S.A. Sedimentology, 49:855-873.
36. PHILLIPS, J. 1841. Figures and Descriptions of the Palaeozoic Fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London, 231 p.
37. RÖDING, P. F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum. Johann Christian Trappi, Hamburg, 199 p.
38. ROUSE, G. W., S. K. GOFFREDI, AND R. C. VRIJENHOEK. 2004. Osedax: Bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. Science, 305:668-671.
39. SAUL, L. R., R. L. SQUIRES, AND J. L. GOEDERT. 1996. A new genus of cryptic lucinid? bivalve from Eocene cold seeps and turbidite-influenced mudstone, western Washington. Journal of Paleontology, 70:788-794.
40. SMITH, C. R. AND A. R. BACO. 2003. Ecology of whale falls at the deep-sea floor. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review, 41:311-354.
41. TAVIANI, M. 1994. The "calcari a Lucina" macrofauna reconsidered: Deep-sea faunal oases from Miocene-age cold vents in the Romagna Apennine, Italy. Geo-Marine Letters, 14:185-191.
42. TOMLIN, J. R. L. B. 1927. Reports on the marine Mollusca in the collections of the South African Museum II. Families Abyssochrysidae, Oocorythidae, Haliotidae, Tonnidae. Annals of the South African Museum, 25:77-83.
43. TOMLIN, J. R. L. B. 1930. Some preoccupied generic names. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 19:22-24.
44. VAN DOVER, C. L., C. R. GERMAN, K. G. SPEER, L. M. PARSON, AND R. C. VRIJENHOEK. 2002. Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates. Science, 295:1253-1257.
45. VAN DOVER, C. L., S. E. HUMPHRIS, D. FORNARI, C. M. CAVANAUGH, R. COLLIER, S. K. GOFFREDI, J. HASHIMOTO, M. D. LILLEY, A. L. REYSENBACH, T. M. SHANK, K. L. VON DAMM, A. BANTA, R. M. GALLANT, D. GÖTZ, D. GREEN, J. HALL, T. L. HARMER, L. A. HURTADO, P. JOHNSON, Z. P. MCKINESS, C. MEREDITH, E. OLSON, I. L. PAN, M. TURNIPSEED, Y.-J. WON, C. R. YOUNG, AND R. C. VRIJENHOEK. 2001. Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents. Science, 294:818-823.
46. WARÉN, A., S. BENGTSON, S. K. GOFFREDI, AND C. L. VAN DOVER. 2003. A hot-vent gastropod with iron sulfide dermal sclerites. Science, 302:1007.
47. WARÉN, A. AND P. BOUCHET. 1986. Four new species of Provanna Dall (Prosobranchia, Cerithiacea?) from East Pacific hydrothermal sites. Zoologica Scripta, 15:157-164.
48. WARÉN, A. AND P. BOUCHET. 2001. Gastropoda and Monoplacophora from hydrothermal vents and seeps; new taxa and records. The Veliger, 44:116-231.
49. WARÉN, A. AND W. F. PONDER. 1991. New species, anatomy, and systematic position of the hydrothermal vent and hydrocarbon seep gastropod family Provannidae fam. n. (Caenogastropoda). Zoologica Scripta, 20:56-102.
50. WENZ, W. 1938-1944. Gastropoda Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia, p. 721-1639. In H. Schindewolf (ed.), Handbuch der Paläozoologie. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin.
51. WHITICAR, M. J. 1999. Carbon and hydrogen isotope systematics of bacterial formation and oxidation of methane. Chemical Geology, 161:291-314.