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- Title
Extreme habitat adaptation by boring bivalves on volcanically active paleoshores from North Atlantic Macaronesia.
- Authors
Santos, Ana; Mayoral, Eduardo; Johnson, Markes; Baarli, B.; Cachão, Mário; Silva, Carlos; Ledesma-Vázquez, Jorge
- Abstract
Extensive bivalve borings are described in detail for the first time from basalt rockgrounds in the North Atlantic volcanic islands of Macaronesia. They occur on a Middle Miocene rocky shore of a small islet of Porto Santo (Madeira Archipelago of Portugal), as well as on Plio-Pleistocene rocky shores on Santiago Island (Cape Verde). A basalt substrate is widely penetrated by clavate-shaped borings belonging to the ichnogenus Gastrochaenolites interpreted as dwelling structures of suspension-feeding bivalves. Some of these borings still retain evidence of the alleged trace-makers preserved as body fossils, while others are filled with their casts. The ichnofossil assemblage present on these bioeroded surfaces belongs to the Entobia ichnofacies. Recognition of Gastrochaenolites borings in volcanic rocks provides useful paleoenvironmental information regarding an expanded strategy for hard-substrate colonization. Preliminary results from fieldwork in the Cape Verde Archipelago indicate that such borings are more widespread through Macaronesia than previously thought.
- Subjects
MACARONESIA; CABO Verde; VOLCANIC ash, tuff, etc.; BORING &; drilling (Earth &; rocks); BASALT; MIOCENE Epoch; FOSSILS
- Publication
Facies, 2012, Vol 58, Issue 3, p325
- ISSN
0172-9179
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10347-011-0283-z