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Parasitic polychaetes in the Early Cretaceous Hydrocarbon seep-restricted brachiopod Peregrinella Multicarinata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Steffen Kiel*
Affiliation:
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Ludewig-Meyn-Str. 10, 24118 Kiel, Germany, and Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Box 37012, Washington DC 20013-7012, USA,

Extract

Hydrothermal vents and methane seeps sustain unique ecosystems with a highly adapted fauna that largely thrives on chemotrophic endosymbionts. This large biomass attracts not only predators but also parasitic taxa like the recently reported oophagous bivalve Acesta bullisis Vokes, 1963 that lives permanently attached to a vestimentiferan tube worm (Järnegren et al., 2005). Here I report large brachiopods of the Early Cretaceous seep-restricted genus Peregrinella Oehlert, in Fischer, 1887 that were infested by polychaete tubes inside their shells during their lifetime.

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Paleontological Notes
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society

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