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New gastropods from the Jurassic of Orville Coast, eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Daniel C.H. Hikuroa
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Auckland, PO Box 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Andrzej Kaim
Affiliation:
Instytut Paleobiologii, Polska Akademia Nauk, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, 113-8654 Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Japan

Abstract

The Latady Group (southern Antarctic Peninsula) hosts the most diverse assemblage of Jurassic molluscs from this continent. A new gastropod mollusc, Silberlingiella latadyensis sp. nov. and three forms assigned to Rissoidae, Pseudomelaniidae and Bullinidae from the Middle-Late Jurassic, Bathonian–Kimmeridgian Hauberg Mountains Formation, Ellsworth Land, Antarctic Peninsula are described here. Silberlingiella is transferred to Eustomatidae and is the first confirmed record of this family in the Southern Hemisphere, indicating a much more widespread Jurassic distribution. The Triassic and Jurassic species of Silberlingiella are compared with the coeval European genus Diatinostoma. Eustomatidae is proposed as an ancestral group for Potamididae and Batillariidae. The composition of the gastropod association described herein differs markedly from the only other Antarctic Jurassic fauna from Alexander Island.

Type
Earth Sciences
Copyright
Antarctic Science Ltd 2007

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