A new genus of lucinid bivalve from hydrocarbon seeps
Fiona L. Gill and Crispin T.S. Little
We erect a new genus, Elongatolucina, for distinctive large, elongate lucinid bivalve specimens from Miocene sediments
from Venezuela. We interpret Elongatolucina to have had a chemosymbiotic mode of life and it may have been seep−restricted. Cryptolucina elassodyseides from Eocene hydrocarbon seep sites in Washington State, USA is incorporated in Elongatolucina.
Fiona L. Gill [F.Gill@leeds.ac.uk] and Crispin T.S. Little [c.little@see.leeds.ac.uk], School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (for details please see creativecommons.org), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Full text (371.5 kB)