Mollusks (Gastropoda, Bivalvia) from Miocene cold-seep deposits in northern Italy: revisions and additions
Author
Kiel, Steffen
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Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Palaeobiology, Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden.
steffen.kiel@nrm.se
Author
Sami, Marco
84B3092F-9552-4BA5-9D8A-6B0D4EB9C18F
Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, 51, Via Medaglie D’Oro 51, 48018 Faenza, Italy.
marco.sami@cheapnet.it
Author
Taviani, Marco
693853C3-940F-43BE-AE69-6344CD02A001
Institute of Marine Sciences, Italian National Research Council, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy; and Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy.
marco.taviani@bo.ismar.cnr.it
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Calliostoma
? sp.
Fig. 4D–F
Material examined
ITALY
–
Tuscany
•
1 spec.
;
Le Colline
;
MSF 1208
(W =
7.3 mm
)
.
Description
Dome-shaped shell, ca
6 mm
high, whorls with slightly convex flanks and indistinct suture, sculpture cancellate with 10 spirals on last whorl, crossed by equally sized and spaced, oblique and sinuous axial ribs.
Remarks
The cancellate sculpture and dome-shaped spire of this species are somewhat unusual for
Calliostoma
, but the specimen is within the morphological range of other
Calliostoma
species
(
Quinn 1992
;
Dornellas & Simone 2013
). Shells with similar sculpture and a general dome-like habitus, though with much broader spire, are built by members of the genus
Ancistrobasis
Dall, 1889
(i.e.,
Ortega & Gofas 2019
;
Gofas
et al.
2021
).
The shell resembles certain species of
Jujubinus
Monterosato, 1884
, for example
Jujubinus
cf.
proximus
(Millet, 1865)
and
Jujubinus sceauxensis
Landau, Van Dingenen & Ceulemans, 2017
, from the
Loire
Basin in northwestern
France
(
Landau
et al.
2017
: pls 23, 25). But
Jujubinus
inhabits intertidal to shallow submarine habitats (
Rueda
et al.
2008
;
Reich
et al.
2014
) and is unlikely to be found in a deep-marine seep environment. Similar sculpture and shell shapes can also be seen in members of the trochoid genus
Odontotrochus
Fisher, 1879
, for example the extant species
Odontotrochus suni
Huang & Fu, 2022
and
O. poppei
(Lan, 1991)
from North
Australia
(
Huang & Fu 2022
). The Late Miocene
Phorculellus taurangulosus
Sacco, 1896
from the Turin hills (
Ferrero Mortara
et al.
1984
: pl. 48 fig. 1) has similar sculpture but less straight-sided whorls than
Calliostoma
? sp.
Stratigraphic and geographic range
Middle Miocene (lower Serravallian), northern
Italy
.