Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-5g6vh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-28T07:49:00.170Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Giant Bathysiphon (Astrorhizina: Foraminifera) from the Late Cretaceous Hunters Cove Formation, southwestern Oregon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

William Miller III
William Miller III*
Affiliation:
Geology Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California 95521
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Foraminiferans belonging to the genus Bathysiphon G. O. and M. Sars in G. O. Sars, 1872 are among the largest fossil protists ever described, some species having tubular tests exceeding 100 mm in length (Miller, 1995). One species, Bathysiphon aaltoi Miller, 1986, from mid-Cretaceous fine-grained turbidites within the Franciscan Complex of northern California, may be the largest fossil foraminiferan ever collected with an estimated test length of approximately 150 mm (Miller, 1991, 1997). Species of comparable size are known from the modern deep-ocean floor (where they often rival or surpass the size of co-occurring metazoans) and are an important component of deep-sea benthic ecosystems (Gooday, 1983; Gage and Tyler, 1991; Gooday et al., 1992).

Type
Paleontological Notes
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , March 2005 , pp. 389 - 394
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Avnimelech, M. 1952. Revision of the tubular Monothalamia. Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, 3:60–68.Google Scholar
Blake, M. C. Jr., Engebretson, D. C., Jayko, A. S., and Jones, D. L. 1985. Tectonostratigraphic terranes in southwest Oregon, p. 147–157. In Howell, D. G. (ed.), Tectonostratigraphic Terranes of the Circum-Pacific Region. Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Houston, Texas.Google Scholar
Bourgeois, J. 1980. Sedimentology and tectonics of Upper Cretaceous rocks, southwest Oregon. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 298 p.Google Scholar
Bourgeois, J., and Dott, R. H. Jr. 1985. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Upper Cretaceous rocks in coastal southwest Oregon: evidence for wrench-fault tectonics in a postulated accretionary terrane. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 96:1007–1019.Google Scholar
Brady, H. B. 1881. Notes on some of the reticularian Rhizopoda of the Challenger Expedition. Pt. III. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, n. s., 21:31–71.Google Scholar
Christiansen, O. 1971. Notes on the biology of Foraminifera. Vie et Milieu, Troisième Symposium Européen de Biologie Marine, supplément, 22:465–478.Google Scholar
de Folin, L. 1886. Les Bathysiphons: premières pages d'une monographic du genre. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, 40:271–289.Google Scholar
Dott, R. H. Jr. 1971. Geology of the southwestern Oregon coast west of the 124th meridian. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Bulletin, 69, 63 p.Google Scholar
Eichwald, C. E. Von. 1860. Lethaea Rossica ou Paléontologie de la Russie; Prémier Section de l'Ancienne Période. Vol. 1. E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, 681 p.Google Scholar
Einsele, G. 1991. Submarine mass flow deposits and turbidites, p. 313–339. In Einsele, G., Ricken, W., and Seilacher, A. (eds.), Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.Google Scholar
Fuchs, T. 1895. Studien über Fucoiden und Hieroglyphen. Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, mathematischnaturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 62:369–448.Google Scholar
Gage, J. D., and Tyler, P. A. 1991. Deep-Sea Biology: A Natural History of Organisms at the Deep-Sea Floor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 504 p.Google Scholar
Gooday, A. J. 1983. Bathysiphon rusticus de Folin, 1886 and Bathysiphon folini n. sp.: two large agglutinated foraminifers abundant in abyssal NE Atlantic epibenthic sledge samples. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 13:262–276.Google Scholar
Gooday, A. J. 1988a. The genus Bathysiphon (Protista, Foraminiferida) in the NE Atlantic: revision of some species described by de Folin (1886). Journal of Natural History, 22:71–93.Google Scholar
Gooday, A. J. 1988b. The genus Bathysiphon (Protista, Foraminiferida) in the northeast Atlantic: a neotype for B. filiformis G. O. & M. Sars, 1872 and the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History, 22:95–105.Google Scholar
Gooday, A. J., and Claugher, D. 1989. The genus Bathysiphon (Protista, Foraminiferida) in the northeast Atlantic: SEM observations on the wall structure of seven species. Journal of Natural History, 23:591–611.Google Scholar
Gooday, A. J., Pond, D. W., and Bowser, S. S. 2002. Ecology and nutrition of the large agglutinated foraminiferan Bathysiphon capillare in the bathyal NE Atlantic: distribution within the sediment profile and lipid biomarker composition. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 245:69–82.Google Scholar
Gooday, A. J., Shires, R., and Jones, A. R. 1997. Large, deep-sea agglutinated Foraminifera: two differing kinds of organization and their possible ecological significance. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 27:278–291.Google Scholar
Gooday, A. J., Levin, L. A., Thomas, C. L., and Hecker, B. 1992. The distribution and ecology of Bathysiphon filiformis Sars and B. major de Folin (Protista, Foraminiferida) on the continental slope off North Carolina. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 22:129–146.Google Scholar
Hatai, K., and Noda, H. 1975. An armored worm from the Miocene Yoko-o Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, 100:209–219.Google Scholar
Hunter, R. E., and Clifton, H. E. 1987. Shelf and deep-marine deposits of Late Cretaceous age, Cape Sebastian area, southwest Oregon, p. 295–300. In Hill, M. L. (ed.), Centennial Field Guide. Vol. 1, Cordilleran Section. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado.Google Scholar
Jírovec, O. 1953. Protozoologie. Nakladatelstvi Cěskoslovenské Akademie Věd, Prague, 643 p.Google Scholar
Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de M. de. 1799. Prodrome d'un nouvelle classification des coquilles. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, p. 63–90.Google Scholar
le Calvez, J. 1938. Un foraminifére géant Bathysiphon filiformis G.-O. Sars. Archives de Zoologie Experimentaire et Générale, 79:82–88.Google Scholar
Lipps, J. H., and Rozanov, A. Y. 1996. The late Precambrian-Cambrian agglutinated fossil Platysolenites. Paleontological Journal, 30:679–687.Google Scholar
Loeblich, A. R. Jr., and Tappan, H. 1964. Foraminiferida, Vol. 1, p. C55–C511. In Moore, R. C. (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Pt. C, Protista. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.Google Scholar
Loeblich, A. R. Jr., and Tappan, H. 1988. Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification. Vol. 1. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 970 p.Google Scholar
Loeblich, A. R. Jr., and Tappan, H. 1989. Implications of wall composition and structure in agglutinated foraminifers. Journal of Paleontology, 63:769–777.Google Scholar
McIlroy, D., Green, O. R., and Brasier, M. D. 2001. Palaeobiology and evolution of the earliest agglutinated Foraminifera: Platysolenites, Spirosolenites and related forms. Lethaia, 34:13–29.Google Scholar
Middleton, G. V., and Bouma, A. H. 1973. Turbidites and deep-water sedimentation. Short Course, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Los Angeles, 157 p.Google Scholar
Miller, W. III. 1986. New species of Bathysiphon (Foraminiferida: Textulariina) from Franciscan flysch deposits, northernmost California. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, 19:91–94.Google Scholar
Miller, W. III 1988. Giant Bathysiphon (Foraminiferida) from Cretaceous turbidites, northern California. Lethaia, 21:363–374.Google Scholar
Miller, W. III 1991. Bathysiphonid (Protista: Foraminiferida) localities in Franciscan flysch, northern California, with a redescription of Bathysiphon aaltoi Miller, 1986. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, 24:71–78.Google Scholar
Miller, W. III 1993. Trace fossil zonation in Cretaceous turbidite facies, northern California. Ichnos, 3:11–28.Google Scholar
Miller, W. III 1995. Examples of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Bathysiphon (Foraminiferida) from the Pacific Rim and the taxonomic status of Terebellina Ulrich, 1904. Journal of Paleontology, 69:624–634.Google Scholar
Miller, W. III 1997. Is Bathysiphon aaltoi Miller, 1986 the largest foraminiferid? Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, 30:117–120.Google Scholar
Mutti, E., and Ricci Lucchi, F. 1978. Turbidites of the northern Apennines: introduction to facies analysis. International Geology Review, 20:125–166.Google Scholar
Nelson, C. H., and Nilsen, T. H. 1984. Modern and ancient deep-sea fan sedimentation. Short Course 14. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 404 p.Google Scholar
Pickering, K. T., Hiscott, R. N., and Hein, F. J. 1989. Deep Marine Environments: Clastic Sedimentation and Tectonics. Unwin Hyman, London, 416 p.Google Scholar
Sars, G. O. 1872. Undersøgelser over Hardangerfjordens fauna. Forhandlinger i Videnskabsselskabet i Kristiania, 1871:246–286.Google Scholar
Savi, P., and Meneghini, G. G. 1850. Osservazioni stratigrafiche e paleontologiche concernati la geologia della Toscana e dei paesi limitrofi, p. 246–528. In Murchison, R. I. (ed.), Memoria sulla struttura geologica delle Alpi, degli Apennini e dei Carpazi. Stemparia granucale, Firenze, Italy.Google Scholar
Seilacher, A. 1977. Pattern analysis of Paleodictyon and related trace fossils, p. 289–334. In Crimes, T. P. and Harper, J. C. (eds.), Trace Fossils 2. Geological Journal Special Issue, 9.Google Scholar
Seilacher, A., Grazhdankin, D., and Legouta, A. 2003. Ediacaran biota: The dawn of animal life in the shadow of giant protists. Paleontological Research, 7:43–54.Google Scholar
Spath, L. F. 1926. On new ammonites from the English Chalk. Geological Magazine, 63:77–83.Google Scholar
Stow, D. A. V. 1986. Deep clastic seas, p. 399–444. In Reading, H. G. (ed.), Sedimentary Environments and Facies (second edition). Blackwell, Oxford.Google Scholar
Ulrich, E. O. 1904. Fossils and age of the Yakutat Formation, p. 125–146. In Emerson, B. K., Palache, C., Dall, W. H., Ulrich, E. O., and Knowlton, F. H. (eds.), Alaska, Vol. 4. Geology and Paleontology. Doubleday, Page, New York. (Reissued in 1910 as Harriman Alaska Series. Vol. 4. Geology and Paleontology. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)Google Scholar
Vyalov, O. S. 1968. Deyaki mirkuvannya pro klasifikatsiyu kremenistikh foraminifer. Dopovidi Akademiï Nauk Ukraiïns'koï RSR, Series B, Geologiya, Geofizika, Khimiya ta Biologiya, 1968:3–6.Google Scholar
Yabe, H., and Shimizu, S. 1926. A study on the genus Parapachydiscus Hyatt. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, Tokyo, 2:171–173.Google Scholar