Nucinella
Description
Nucinella sp.
(Fig. 11)
Description. The largest complete specimen (CAS 73135) is 7.6 mm in height and 6.8 mm in length (we follow La Perna, 2005 for the measurement orientation for nucinellids), of truncate nucinellid shape, and has a row of thick taxodont teeth below the pointed umbo.
Material and occurrence. Five specimens from Eagle Creek (Late Barremian, Early Cretaceous).
Remarks. Chemosymbiosis has recently been documented for Nucinella (Oliver & Taylor 2012). Nucinellids are rare at fossil seep deposit but have a long geologic history in these habitats, with occurrences in the Late Triassic of Oregon (Peckmann et al. 2011), the Early Cretaceous of Svalbard (Hammer et al. 2011), and the Late Cretaceous and early Oligocene of Japan (Amano et al. 2007, 2013; Kiel et al. 2008a).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Manzanellidae
- Genus
- Nucinella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Solemyoida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- La Perna, R. (2005) A gigantic deep-sea Nucinellidae from the tropical West Pacific (Bivalvia: Protobranchia). Zootaxa, 881, 1 - 10.
- Oliver, P. G. & Taylor, J. D. (2012) Bacterial symbiosis in the Nucinellidae (Bivalvia: Solemyida) with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 78, 81 - 91. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1093 / mollus / eyr 045
- Peckmann, J., Kiel, S., Sandy, M. R., Taylor, D. G. & Goedert, J. L. (2011) Mass occurrences of the brachiopod Halorella in Late Triassic methane-seep deposits, Eastern Oregon. Journal of Geology, 119, 207 - 220. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1086 / 658199
- Hammer, O., Nakrem, H. A., Little, C. T. S., Hryniewicz, K., Sandy, M. R., Hurum, J. H., Druckenmiller, P., Knutsen, E. M. & Hoyberget, M. (2011) Hydrocarbon seeps from close to the Jurassic - Cretaceous boundary, Svalbard. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 306, 15 - 26. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. palaeo. 2011.03.019
- Amano, K., Jenkins, R. G. & Hikida, Y. (2007) A new gigantic Nucinella (Bivalvia: Solemyoida) from the Cretaceous cold-seep deposit in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The Veliger, 49, 84 - 90.
- Amano, K., Jenkins, R. G., Sako, Y., Ohara, M. & Kiel, S. (2013) A Paleogene deep-sea methane-seep communitiy from Honshu, Japan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 387, 126 - 133. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. palaeo. 2013.07.015
- Kiel, S., Amano, K. & Jenkins, R. G. (2008 a) Bivalves from Cretaceous cold-seep deposits on Hokkaido, Japan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 53, 525 - 537. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.4202 / app. 2008.0310