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First record of buccinid genus Chauvetia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the fossil record of the New World (Miocene, Venezuela) and its paleobiogeographic implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2015

Bernard Landau ,
Carlos M. da Silva  and
Geerat J. Vermeij
Bernard Landau
Affiliation:
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, NL-2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands; Instituto Dom Luiz da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal and International Health Centres, Av. Infante de Henrique 7, Areias São João, P-8200-261 Albufeira, Portugal
Carlos M. da Silva
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geologia e Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
Geerat J. Vermeij
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Abstract

Until now, the buccinid genus Chauvetia was considered of European or West African origin, and is still endemic to these areas today. This paper describes the oldest representative of the genus, Chauvetia inopinata nov. sp., from the upper Burdigalian-lower Langhian transition Cantaure Formation of Venezuela. This surprising record suggests a New World tropical origin to the genus and subsequent immigration to the Old World before the earliest known Old World record, which is upper Tortonian. We postulate that this pre-late Tortonian (pre-8.12–7.42 Ma) dispersal of the tropical Gatunian west-Atlantic Chauvetia into the tropical East Atlantic European-West African Province most probably happened during the 10.71–9.36 Ma interval (early–mid Tortonian) during which the Circum-Tropical Current weakened, and the northward Intra-Caribbean Current had started, enhancing the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current. This new data constitutes compelling evidence of a pre-Pliocene eastward dispersal of New World shallow marine organisms across the Atlantic.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 89 , Issue 3 , May 2015 , pp. 487 - 493
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