New records and a new species of bivalve (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from Miocene hydrocarbon seep deposits, North Island, New Zealand
Author
Saether, Kristian P.
Author
Jingeng, Sha
Author
Little, Crispin T. S.
Author
Campbell, Kathleen A.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4154
1
1
26
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4154.1.1
2b00120c-7a1a-4682-953c-c986155da6b6
1175-5326
272151
1FAB3228-9274-42D8-A2AF-AE19999E17E8
Subfamily
Bathymodiolinae
Kenk & Wilson, 1985
Remarks.
Four new seep fossil mussel species have been formally described since this group was reviewed by
Saether
et al.
(2010)
. Three have been assigned to the genus
Bathymodiolus
Kenk & Wilson, 1985
. They are
Bathymodiolus
(s. l.)
inouei
Amano & Jenkins, 2011
, from the early Oligocene Nuibetsu Formation,
northern
Japan
,
B.
(s. l.)
satsopensis
Kiel & Amano, 2013
, from the late
Oligocene Lincoln Creek
Formation, north-western USA, and
B.
(s. l.) aff.
satsopensis
Kiel & Amano, 2013
from the early Oligocene Makah Formation, north-western
USA
. The fourth new seep fossil mussel species,
Vulcanidas
?
goederti
, was described by
Kiel & Amano (2013)
from the middle Eocene Humptulips Formation, north-western USA.