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The Fossil Record of Vent and Seep Mollusks

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The Vent and Seep Biota

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Abstract

Mollusks have by far the most extensive and best-investigated fossil record of all organism groups inhabiting hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. More than 250 bivalve, gastropod, and polyplacophoran species have been reported from ancient vents and seeps, nearly 200 of them from the Cenozoic alone. Members of at least five bivalve families live in symbiosis with sulfur- or methane-oxidizing bacteria, and among the gastropods at least three groups took this path of adaptation. Mollusks are common at vent communities of Mesozoic and Paleozoic age, but appear to be less common in seep communities of this age. It is generally believed that brachiopods were the dominant taxon at Mesozoic and Paleozoic seeps; however, an increasing number of Paleozoic and Mesozoic seep sites with mollusks have been discovered in recent years.

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Kiel, S. (2010). The Fossil Record of Vent and Seep Mollusks. In: Kiel, S. (eds) The Vent and Seep Biota. Topics in Geobiology, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9572-5_8

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