Crustaceans in cold seep ecosystems: fossil record, geographic distribution, taxonomic composition, and biology

Crustaceans including decapods, copepods, amphipods, cumaceans, tanaidaceans, ostracods, and isopods are major components of modern marine methane seeps, where they play a key role in structuring these hotspots of diversity in relatively deep waters. There is every reason to suspect they were common too in ancient seeps, but relatively few studies have focused on crustaceans from fossil seep deposits thus far. We hypothesize that crustaceans can be commonly found in Meso-Cenozoic seeps when many of the aforementioned groups were present and/or radiated. To this end, we review the global fossil record of crustaceans in seeps for the first time using the primary literature and newly collected specimens from the Late Cretaceous of South Dakota, USA. We find that seep crustaceans are much more common than previously known, are found on each continent, and occur more frequently starting in the Jurassic. Decapod crustaceans are represented by body fossils and traces (coprolites, repair scars in mollusks, and burrows), whereas only body fossils of ostracods and barnacles are known. Other groups are lacking. While modern seep decapods are dominated by galatheoid squat lobsters, alvinocaridid shrimps, king crabs, and true crabs, the fossil record is consisting primarily of callianassid ghost shrimps and true crabs thus far. Preservation and recognition are likely to have influenced this discrepancy. Finally, the relatively unexplored fossil record of seep crustaceans provides many opportunities for systematic and paleoecological research.

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Parasitic castration of the crab, Tumidocarcinus giganteus Glaessner, from the Miocene of New Zealand: Coevolution within the Crustacea

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000024264 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 72 (3) ◽

pp. 493-498 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Rodney M. Feldmann

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

South Dakota ◽

Late Cretaceous ◽

Adult Male ◽

Fossil Record ◽

Adult Males ◽

Decapod Crustaceans ◽

Parasitic Castration

Feminization of adult male xanthid crabs, Tumidocarcinus giganteus Glaessner, from the Miocene of New Zealand, represents the first notice of the phenomenon in the fossil record. Marked broadening of the abdomen of adult males, to assume a form much like that of mature females and limitation in the size of the major claw likely result from parasitic castration by rhizocephalan, probably kentrogonid, barnacles. A sexually aberrant dakoticancrid, Dakoticancer overanus Rathbun, from the Late Cretaceous of South Dakota (Bishop, 1983) may extend this coevolutionary relationship between parasitic barnacles and decapod crustaceans into the Mesozoic.

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PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE LACUSTRINE STRATA OF THE SANFRANCISCANA BASIN IN NORTHERN MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL

Revista Geonomos ◽

10.18285/geonomos.v27i1.21721 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Jonathas S. Bittencourt ◽

Pedro L. C. R. Vieira ◽

Raphael M. Horta ◽

André G. Vasconcelos ◽

Natália C. A. Brandão ◽

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Keyword(s):

Late Cretaceous ◽

Fossil Record ◽

Preliminary Report ◽

Upper Cretaceous ◽

Minas Gerais ◽

Fish Scales ◽

The North ◽

Younger Age ◽

First Time ◽

Pelitic Rocks

We report new data on the geology and the fossil record of the Sanfranciscana Basin in sites to the north of the traditionally explored localities within Minas Gerais. The strata in the new explored area are formed by distinct lithologies, encompassing pelitic rocks with caliche levels and metric bodies of cross-bedded sandstone towards the top, similar to the ﬂuviolacustrine beds of the Areado Group in the southern portions of the basin. Also similar to other regions of the São Francisco Craton, the deposits of the Sanfranciscana Basin studied herein lie discordantly to the rocks of the Bambuí Basin. We preliminarily report neopterygian ﬁsh scales, little informative archosaurian bones and an association of the ostracods Ilyocypris- Fossocytheridea. This ostracod association is registered for the ﬁrst time in the Cretaceous of the Sanfranciscana Basin. The ostracods have been collected from the lacustrine, vertebrate-bearing rocks cropping out in Lagoa dos Patos and Coração de Jesus. The cytherideid Fossocytheridea assigns a minimal Aptian age to its bearing rocks. Its association with Ilyocypris was also reported in Upper Cretaceous oligohaline paleoenvironments in Brazil and Argentina, indicating similar depositional conditions to the strata reported in this paper. The putative aﬃnities of the specimens of the Sanfranciscana Basin with F. ventrotuberculata, and their association with Ilyocypris, raise the hypothesis of a younger age for some levels of that basin in northern Minas Gerais, perhaps ranging into the Late Cretaceous. Keywords: Ostracoda, Archosauria, Areado Group, Cretaceous, Gondwana

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Two large squat lobsters of the superfamily Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, with description of a new species of the genus Eumunida Smith, 1883

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4555.3.2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4555 (3) ◽

pp. 319

Author(s):

MASAYUKI OSAWA ◽

TAKUO HIGASHIJI

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Ryukyu Islands ◽

Deep Waters ◽

The Ryukyu Islands ◽

Japanese Waters ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species ◽

Squat Lobsters

Two species of the chirostyloid families Sternostylidae and Eumunididae, Sternostylus investigatoris (Alcock & Anderson, 1899) and Eumunida balteipes n. sp., are reported on the basis of material collected from deep waters off Kume Island, Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan. Sternostylus investigatoris is recorded for the first time and is the second species of the genus from Japanese waters. Eumunida balteipes n. sp. is morphologically closest to E. sternomaculata de Saint Laurent & Macpherson, 1990, but the armature of the thoracic sternite 3 and P1 palm distinguishes the two species.

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Fossil crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Late Cretaceous cárdenas Formation, east-central Mexico

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000034661 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 69 (2) ◽

pp. 340-350 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Francisco J. Vega ◽

Rodney M. Feldmann ◽

Francisco Sour-Tovar

Keyword(s):

Late Cretaceous ◽

Fossil Record ◽

New Genus ◽

Gulf Coast ◽

Central Mexico ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

East Central ◽

The Family ◽

Marine Lagoon ◽

First Time

Twenty-four nearly complete carapace samples were collected at three different localities of the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) Cárdenas Formation in San Luis Potosí, east-central Mexico. The material has been assigned to five families: the Callianassidae, Dakoticancridae, Carcineretidae, ?Majidae, and Retroplumidae. Two genera of callianassid shrimp are described, Cheramus for the first time in the fossil record. Dakoticancer australis Rathbun is reported as the most abundant crustacean element; one new genus and species of carcineretid crab, Branchiocarcinus cornatus, is erected, and a single, fragmentary specimen is questionably referred to the Majidae. The three localities reflect paleoenvironmental differences, exhibited by different lithologies, within marginal marine, lagoon environments. The record of dakoticancrid crabs in the Cardenas Formation extends the paleobiogeographic range of the family and the genus Dakoticancer. Carcineretid crabs, although not abundant, seem to have been a persistent element of crustacean assemblages in clastic environments during the Late Cretaceous of the ancestral Gulf Coast of Mexico.

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Decapod Crustacea of the Central Paratethyan Ottnangian Stage (middle Burdigalian): implications for systematics and biogeography

Geologica Carpathica ◽

10.1515/geoca-2015-0021 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 217-233 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Matúš Hyžný ◽

Mathias Harzhauser ◽

Wolfgang Danninger

Keyword(s):

Shallow Water ◽

Deep Water ◽

Fossil Record ◽

Outer Shelf ◽

Decapod Crustaceans ◽

Lower Miocene ◽

Western Tethys ◽

Decapod Crustacea ◽

Portunid Crab ◽

First Time

AbstractDecapod crustaceans from the Ottnangian (middle Burdigalian, Lower Miocene) of the Western and Central Paratethys remain poorly known. In this study, we review and re-describe mud shrimps (Jaxea kuemeli), ghost shrimps (Gourretiasp.,Calliax michelottii) and brachyuran crabs of the families Leucosiidae, Polybiidae and Portunidae. A dorsal carapace of the genusCalliaxis reported for the first time in the fossil record. Re-examination of the type material ofRandallia strouhali(Leucosiidae) andGeryon ottnangensis(Geryonidae) resulted in a transfer of these species intoPalaeomyra(Leucosiidae) andLiocarcinus(Polybiidae), respectively.Achelous vindobonensis, originally described as a chela of a portunid crab, probably belongs to a member of Polybiidae and is provisionally treated asLiocarcinussp. Only two species,J. kuemeliandC. michelottii, are also known from the Karpatian, the succeeding Paratethyan stage. In most cases, the decapod assemblages of the Ottnangian consist of rather shallow-water taxa whereas the assemblages of the Karpatian consist of deep-water taxa from the middle and outer shelf. The Central Paratethyan assemblages show similarities in genus composition to the Proto-Mediterranean and recent Indo-Pacific regions.Gourretiasp. represents the earliest occurrence of the respective genus in the fossil record. The Oligocene–Early Miocene appearance ofPalaeomyraandLiocarcinusin the circum-Mediterranean implies that sources of present-day diversity hotspots in the Indo-Pacific trace to the Western Tethys (as for other decapod genera), although coeval decapod assemblages in the Indo-Pacific remain poorly known.

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A new genus and species of enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Geology ◽

10.1590/23174889201500020001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 161-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Ismar de Souza Carvalho ◽

Fernando E. Novas ◽

Federico L. Agnolín ◽

Marcelo P. Isasi ◽

Francisco I. Freitas ◽

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Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Early Cretaceous ◽

Late Cretaceous ◽

Fossil Record ◽

New Genus ◽

The Body ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

First Time

The fossil record of birds in Gondwana is almost restricted to the Late Cretaceous. Herein we describe a new fossil from the Araripe Basin, <italic>Cratoavis cearensis</italic> nov. gen et sp., composed of an articulated skeleton with feathers attached to the wings and surrounding the body. The present discovery considerably extends the temporal record of the Enantiornithes birds at South America to the Early Cretaceous. For the first time, an almost complete and articulated skeleton of an Early Cretaceous bird from South America is documented.

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Notes on some crinoid associated decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Lakshadweep Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4766.1.4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4766 (1) ◽

pp. 86-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. PRAKASH ◽

N. MARIMUTHU

Keyword(s):

Sea Urchins ◽

Decapod Crustaceans ◽

Sea Stars ◽

Brachyuran Crab ◽

Squat Lobster ◽

Central Indian Ocean ◽

De Man ◽

First Time ◽

Lakshadweep Archipelago ◽

Squat Lobsters

Decapod crustaceans symbiotic with echinoderms (sea stars, brittle stars, feather stars, basket stars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins) possess remarkable diversification in the Indo-Pacific. In the present study, seven species of decapod crustaceans symbiotic with crinoids are recorded based on collections from selected Islands (Agatti, Amini, Bangaram, Kavaratti, Kalpeni, and Minicoy) of Lakshadweep Archipelago. Of these decapods, five caridean shrimps (Alpheidae: Synalpheus carinatus (de Man, 1888), S. comatularum (Haswell, 1882), S. stimpsonii (de Man, 1888); Palaemonidae: Palaemonella pottsi (Borradaile, 1915), Pontoniopsis comanthi (Borradaile, 1915), one brachyuran crab [Pilumnidae: Permanotus purpureus (Gordon, 1934)] and one squat lobster [Galatheidae: Allogalathea elegans (Adams & White, 1848)] were identified. The caridean shrimps have associated with the crinoids Comaster multifidus (Müller, 1841), Phanogenia gracilis (Hartlaub, 1893), P. distincta (Carpenter, 1888), P. multibrachiata (Carpenter, 1888) and Stephanometra indica (Smith, 1876). The brachyuran crab was observed in association with the crinoid Phanogenia gracilis whereas the squat lobsters were associated with Stephanometra tenuipinna (Hartlaub, 1890) and S. indica. Except S. stimpsonii and P. purpureus, all other species were recorded for the first time from India. Here, we provide details on morphology, distribution, habitat, and hosts for all species. We recommend further exploration of the sub-shallow coral reef areas of Lakshadweep as there will be many species that certainly remain to be discovered.

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Paleocene isocrinids (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from the Kauru Formation, South Island, New Zealand

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000025658 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

pp. 135-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Jeffrey D. Stilwell ◽

R. Ewan Fordyce ◽

Peter J. Rolfe

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Storm Surge ◽

Late Cretaceous ◽

Fossil Record ◽

High Energy ◽

Coarse Grained ◽

Local Equivalent ◽

Energy Environment ◽

First Time

Crinoids are reported from the New Zealand Paleocene for the first time and include rare articulated columnals and brachia with pinnules. These specimens of Metacrinus sp. (Isocrinidae) are present in basal, fossiliferous, coarse-grained, quartzose sediments of the Kauru Formation, a few centimeters above schist basement, in the Kakanui Valley, North Otago. The crinoid-bearing facies probably represents earliest onlap or a storm surge onto a wave cut platform; sedimentological and paleontological evidence indicates a moderate- to high-energy environment. The crinoids were most probably buried rapidly while alive or shortly after death. The presence of isocrinids in the Kauru Formation and younger Paleogene strata reveals that the supposed shift of some isocrinids from a shallower to a deeper environment actually occurred much later in the Paleogene, and not the Late Cretaceous as previously supposed. Associated molluscs indicate a mid to upper “Wangaloan” Stage (local), equivalent to mid Paleocene. A summary of the New Zealand crinoid fossil record is presented.

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Paleobiogeography and biodiversity of Late Maastrichtian dinosaurs: how many dinosaur species went extinct at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary?

BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin ◽

10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.547 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 183 (6) ◽

pp. 547-559 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Jean Le Loeuff

Keyword(s):

Late Cretaceous ◽

Fossil Record ◽

Dinosaur Extinction ◽

Order Of Magnitude ◽

Species Area ◽

The Mean ◽

Species Area Relationship ◽

Global Biodiversity ◽

Chicxulub Impact ◽

First Time

Abstract The global Late Maastrichtian non-avian dinosaur apparent biodiversity is extensively surveyed for the first time. It amounts to 104 species (including unnamed forms) in 2010. The real biodiversity being obscured by taphonomical biases and the scarcity of the continental fossil record, a species-area relationship is used to estimate it. The results show that several hundreds (between 628 and 1078) non-avian dinosaur species were alive in the Late Maastrichtian, which is almost an order of magnitude above previous estimates. Because of the complex Late Cretaceous palaeobiogeography, discussions about dinosaur extinction should be based on this estimated real global biodiversity, not on the apparent biodiversity of a single area. Given the mean duration of dinosaur genera (7.7 Ma), the presence of so many dinosaur species in the Latest Cretaceous is consistent with the termination of most lineages at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (the Late Maastrichtian sub-stage is 2.8 m.y. long). The Late Maastrichtian dinosaurian biodiversity is therefore consistent with the sudden extinction of the group following the Chicxulub impact.

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Anomuran and brachyuran trackways and resting trace from the Pliocene of Valduggia (Piedmont, NW Italy): environmental, behavioural, and taphonomic implications

Natural History Sciences ◽

10.4081/nhs.2016.281 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 35

Author(s):

Giovanni Pasini ◽

Angela Baldanza ◽

Lorenzo M. Gallo ◽

Alessandro Garassino ◽

Hiroaki Karasawa

Keyword(s):

Hermit Crab ◽

Fossil Record ◽

Mediterranean Area ◽

Decapod Crustaceans ◽

Intertidal Environment ◽

Shallow Marine ◽

Marine Deposits ◽

Brachyuran Crabs ◽

Nw Italy ◽

First Time

We report a rich ichnofacies including trackways and a resting trace made by indeterminate anomuran and brachyuran crabs, and other organic sedimentary structures produced by invertebrates. This is the first fossil record of crab trackways and resting trace in a shoreface intertidal environment from the Pliocene sediments of Valduggia area (Vercelli, Piedmont, NW Italy). Behavioural and palaeoenvironmental data allow reconstruction of the possible scenario of the upper shoreface surface in this area of the northern paleo-Adriatic Gulf during the Pliocene. The resting trace is tentatively compared to the rehydrating and respiration behaviour of a semiterrestrial (?Ocypodidae) crab, documented for the first time in the fossil record. A single trackway is tentatively assigned to the locomotion of a land hermit crab, the first such fossil record from the paleo-Mediterranean area. Moreover, among other invertebrate burrows, hypichnal Halopoa cf. H. imbricata is reported in shallow marine deposits for the first time. Palaeontological, petrological, sedimentological, taphonomic, and ethological implications are discussed and compared with neoichnological data. This notable discovery enlarges our scant knowledge on the palaeo-ichnology of decapod crustaceans.

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