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Mass occurrence of hokkaidoconchid gastropods in the Upper Jurassic methane seep carbonate from Alexander Island, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

Andrzej Kaim  and
Simon R.A. Kelly
Andrzej Kaim*
Affiliation:
Instytut Paleobiologii, Polska Akademia Nauk, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland
Simon R.A. Kelly
Affiliation:
CASP, West Building, 181A Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DH, United Kingdom
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*[email protected]
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Abstract

The Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) methane seep carbonate of the Gateway Pass Limestone Bed (Alexander Island, Antarctica) yields enormous numbers of the minute gastropod mollusc, Hokkaidoconcha hignalli sp. nov. together with an unidentified limpet gastropod and occasional protobranch and lucinid bivalves. This assemblage constitutes one of the most abundant (by means of the specimen number) records of Jurassic chemosynthesis-based communities. The gastropod family Hokkaidoconchidae is extremely common in Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep carbonates from Japan and is known also from Upper Jurassic/Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep carbonates in California. It is an extinct family closely related to modern seep and vent dwelling Provannidae. This is the first confirmed record of this family in the Southern Hemisphere, indicating its surprisingly early and widespread distribution reaching high latitudes.

Keywords

Antarctic Peninsulacold seepHokkaidoconchidaemolluscTithonian
Type
Earth Sciences
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 2009 , pp. 279 - 284
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Copyright © Antarctic Science Ltd 2009

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