Taphonomy, distribution and palaeoecology of stalked barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic

• Autorzy: Kocova-Veselska M. , Koci T.

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DOI

10.7494/geol.2015.41.1.97

• Konferencja: XVIth International Conference of Young Geologists Her'lany 2015
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The Cirripedia are marine crustaceans that as adults are usually sessile, attached to hard substrata or to other organisms by their first pair of antennas. The carapace completely envelops the body, and in most forms it secretes a calcareous shell, with an opening where they stretch out for food. Today cirripedes remain a highly successful group of crustaceans, both in number of species and abundance (Newman & Abbott 1980). The preferred habitats of modern Cirripedia are widely diverse, ranging from the uppermost littoral to abyssal depths. Being principally filter feeders in the intertidal food chain, they modify the habitat structure and affect the abundance and population structure of other intertidal organisms, and are vital to the ecological balance of the near-shore marine system (Chan 2007). However, most Late Mesozoic cirripede genera are extinct which means that, apart from associated faunal elements, there is little except overall capitular morphology that can be used to identify palaeoenvironmental conditions (Buckeridge 1983). Stalked barnacles most often occur in the fossil record as dissociated plates of capitulum and peduncle, because soon after death plates tend to disarticulate and become scattered, similar to modern lepadids and scalpellids (Hauschke et al. 2011). Whilst certain species of balanids are readily distinguishable from each other in the fossil record, others may easily be confused, especially when preserved as isolated plates. Species-level determination of fossil remains may commonly be achieved by the recognition of either some, or a combination of a few major features of single plates: conical or cylindrical plate, smooth or ribbed surface, shape of growth lines of inner and upper surface, position of apex, etc. (Collins et al. 2014). The barnacles form a predominant part of the arthropod assemblage throughoutthe Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (BCB) and are a common component of the mesofaunal fossil remains of the Upper Cretaceous pelagic and mainly nearshore-shallow marine deposits in the BCB. Barnacles from shallow water deposits possess relatively heavily calcified capitular plates (in comparison to pelagic forms) as an adaptation to high-energy environment. However, they could inhabit also microenvironments behind larger boulders, where the water current is not so turbulent. Although most of these cirripede shells involved rapidly break down into separate plates or valves after death, species of the Cretaceous genus Stramentum Logan provides some notable exceptions. Under certain conditions, individual plates of heavily calcified stramentids have remained articulated during fossilization and their occurrence appears to be restricted to three exceptional 2015, vol. 41 (1): 97–9898circumstances: when their cypris larvae attached directly to a substrate (e. g. ammonite shells); when cirripedes were embedded in black shales; or when cirripedes were rapidly buried. All Czech stramentids are known only as epizoans of the body chamber of smooth planispiral ammonites with widely spaced, shallow ribs, such as Collignoniceras Breistroffer and Lewesiceras Spath (Kočová Veselská et al. 2013). In addition, one articulated capitulum of Arcoscalpellum angustatum (Geinitz) is documented from the BCB; only a few reports of complete Arcoscalpellum are known from the Cretaceous deposits. The predation on cirripedes is also known from the BCB. The penetrative holes and non-pentrative pits of ichnogenus Sedilichnus Müller, caused by carnivorous naticid and muricid gastropods, are present on two capitular plates of Cretiscalpellum glabrum (Roemer). Microborings, which are more abundant on capitular cirripede plates from the BCB, are developed as small connected channels and could be caused by algae, hydroids, fungi or even clionid sponges. Similar data of predation on cirripede valves are poorly known, e. g. from the Campanian locality Ivö Klack in southern Sweden (Gale & Sørensen 2015).

Słowa kluczowe

EN

conical plate; cylindrical plate; ribbed surface

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwa AGH
• Czasopismo: Geology, Geophysics and Environment
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: Vol. 41, no. 1
• Strony: 97--98
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 7 poz..

Twórcy

autor

Kocova-Veselska M.

• Charles University, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Albertov 6, CZ-128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic

autor

Koci T.

• Ivančická 581, CZ-199 00 Prague 9-Letňany, Czech Republic

Bibliografia

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