Thalassonerita megastoma Moroni 1966
Creators
- 1. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Palaeobiology, Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden.
- 2. Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, 51, Via Medaglie D'Oro 51, 48018 Faenza, Italy.
- 3. Institute of Marine Sciences, Italian National Research Council, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy; and Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy.
Description
Thalassonerita megastoma Moroni, 1966
Fig. 6A–B
Nerita (Thalassonerita) megastoma Moroni, 1966: 71, pl. 1.
Material examinedITALY – Emilia-Romagna • 5 specs; Caselle C; NRM Mo 204846. – Tuscany • 3 specs; Le Colline; MSF 1203 (W = 7 mm), MSF 1220 (H = 7.6 mm), MSF 1223 (W = 15.2 mm) • 6 specs; same collection data as for preceding; NRM Mo 204845.
RemarksThalassonerita megastoma has been reported and at times figured from various Calcari a Lucina sites of the Romagna Apennines (Moroni 1966; Taviani 1994, 1996, 2001, 2011; Sami & Taviani 2015, 2019; Kiel et al. 2023). Specimen MSF 1223 from Le Colline shows scars of the left and right columellar muscles, consistent with the anatomical sketch of the closely related extant species Thalassonerita naticoides (Clarke, 1989) provided by Warén & Bouchet (1993: fig. 2). Thalassonerita naticoides is a very common species at methane-seeps in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea (Clarke 1989; Warén & Bouchet 1993; Olu et al. 1997; Amon et al. 2017).
Stratigraphic and geographic rangeMiddle to Upper Miocene, northern Italy.
Subclass Caenogastropoda Cox, 1960
Order Littorinimorpha Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975
Family Elachisinidae Ponder, 1985
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MSF , NRM
- Family
- Phenacolepadidae
- Genus
- Thalassonerita
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- MSF 1203, MSF 1220, MSF 1223
- Order
- Cycloneritida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Moroni
- Species
- megastoma
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thalassonerita megastoma Moroni, 1966 sec. Kiel, Sami & Taviani, 2023
References
- Moroni M. A. 1966. Malacofauna del " Calcare a Lucine " di S. Sofia - Forli. Palaeontographica Italica 60: 69 - 87.
- 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. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 01203730
- Taviani M. 1996. La scoperta delle oasi di mare profondo nel Miocene italiano. Paleocronache 1996: 7 - 14.
- Taviani M. 2001. Fluid venting and associated processes. In: Vai G. B. & Martini I. P. (eds) Anatomy of an Orogen: the Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins: 351 - 366. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 94 - 015 - 9829 - 3 _ 20
- Sami M. & Taviani M. 2015. I Calcari a Lucina e i Gessi di Rontana. I Gessi di Brisighella e Rontana. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Speleologia - Ser. II 28: 39 - 56.
- Sami M. & Taviani M. 2019. La Vita nei mari prima del gesso: i " calcari a Lucina " e i carbonati preevaporitici di Monte Mauro. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Speleologia - Ser. II 34: 49 - 73.
- Kiel S., Sami M. & Taviani M. 2023. Unusual Miocene hydrocarbon-seep faunas from the Brisighella area in northern Italy: embedded in clastics and first records of the lucinid bivalves Megaxinus and Miltha. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68: 127 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.4202 / app. 01021.2022
- Clarke A. H. 1989. New mollusks from undersea oil seep sites off Louisiana. Malacology Data Net 2: 122 - 134.
- Waren A. & Bouchet P. 1993. New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. Zoologica Scripta 22: 1 - 90. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1993. tb 00342. x
- Olu K., Lance S., Sibuet M., Henry P., Fiala-Medoni A. & Dinet A. 1997. Cold seep communities as indicators of fluid expulsion patterns through mud volcanoes seaward of the Barbados Accretionary Prism. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Reserach Papers 44: 811 - 841. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0967 - 0637 (96) 00123 - 9
- Amon D. J., Gobin J., Van Dover C. L., Levin L. A., Marsh L. & Raineault N. A. 2017. Characterization of methane-seep communities in a deep-sea area designated for oil and natural gas exploitation off Trinidad and Tobago. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 342. https: // doi. org / 10.3389 / fmars. 2017.00342