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Paleontological Research Institution is proud to announce publication of
Bulletins of American Paleontology, no. 377-378, "Neogene Tonnoidean
Gastropods of Tropical and South America: Contributions to the Dominican
Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American
Isthmus," by A. G. Beu (550 pp., 79 pls., ISBN 978-0-87710-487-2). See the
partial abstract below. The retail price is US $80.00. Please email me
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Abstract: The 142 species of tonnoidean gastropods recorded from the Neogene
to Recent faunas of tropical America (Mexico, and a few taxa from Florida
and California, south to Ecuador and Brazil) are revised, along with the 12
species of Neogene to Recent Personidae and Ranellidae occurring in Chile
and Argentina. Taxa included are: (1) BURSIDAE: Bursa, 11 species, including
the eastern Atlantic species B. scrobilator (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Pliocene
and Pleistocene of tropical America; Aspa marginata (Gmelin, 1791), an
eastern Atlantic species recorded in the Pliocene-Pleistocene of Limón,
Costa Rica; Crossata, with one eastern Pacific species (California to Peru);
Marsupina, five species, including M. judensis n. sp. (Miocene, Punta Judas,
Costa Rica). (2) PERSONIDAE: Distorsio, 12 species, including D. biangulata
n. sp and D. jungi n. sp. (both Miocene, Cantaure, Venezuela); Personopsis,
one Recent species. (3) RANELLIDAE, RANELLINAE: Argobuccinum, one species;
Fusitriton, three species; Halgyrineum, one species; Priene, one Chilean
species; Ranella, three species, including R. chilena n. sp.
(Oligocene-Miocene, Chile); Ameranella, one species. (4) RANELLIDAE,
CYMATIINAE: Cabestana, one living southwestern Atlantic species; Charonia,
three species; Crassicymatium crassicordatum n. gen., n. sp.
(Oligocene-Miocene, Chile); Cymatium, four species; Gelagna, one species;
Gutturnium, one species; Linatella, one species; Monoplex, 31 species,
including M. gatunicus n. sp. (Miocene, Panama), M. jackwinorum n. sp.
(Miocene, Venezuela), M. longispira n. sp. (Miocene, Dominican Republic), M.
panamensis n. sp. (Miocene-Pliocene, both coasts of Panama), and two species
left unnamed; Ranularia, three species; Reticutriton, five species, one left
unnamed; Septa, two species, including S. landaui n. sp. (Miocene-Pliocene,
Dominican Republic); Turritriton, four species; Sassia, seven species,
including S. warreni n. sp.; Cymatiella, one species, C. vokesorum n. sp.
(the last two both Miocene-Pliocene, Dominican Republic). (5) CASSIDAE,
CASSINAE: Cassis, 12 species, including C. altispira n. sp.
(Plio-Pleistocene, Dominican Republic, Atlantic Costa Rica, and Panama) and
C. costulifera n. sp. (Pliocene, Atlantic Costa Rica, and Panama);
Cypraecassis, six species, including C. cantaurana n. sp. (Miocene,
Cantaure, Venezuela); Galeodea, one species; Sconsia, six species. (6)
CASSIDAE, OOCORYTHINAE: Dalium, two species; Oocorys, one species. (7)
CASSIDAE, PHALIINAE: Echinophoria, three species; Semicassis, five species.
(8) TONNIDAE: Eudolium, one species; Malea, nine species, including two
unnamed; Tonna, two species. Although Ficus is now included in the
superfamily Ficoidea, and most tropical American Ficidae are not included
here, the three Ficus species in the Dominican Republic are described in an
Appendix: F. bernardi n. sp., F. gibsonsmithi n. sp., and F. lisselongata n.
sp.
Neosconsia ecuadoriana Olsson, 1942 (Pliocene, Ecuador), is transferred to
the family Buccinidae. The Argentinean Oligocene/Miocene species Ocenebra
(?) rada (Ihering, 1907), Xymene obliteratus (Cossmann, 1899), and
Urosalpinx (sensu lato) dautzenbergi (Ihering, 1897) are transferred to the
family Muricidae. Ipunina vladimiri Nielsen & Frassinetti, 2008 (Litiopidae;
formerly thought to be an Oocorys species), is recorded from Cantaure,
Venezuela. Charonia seguenzae (Aradas & Benoit, 1870) is a fourth Recent
Charonia species limited to the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The occurrences of the atlantiphile species Linatella caudata (Gmelin, 1791)
in Armuelles Formation (Early Pleistocene), Burica Peninsula, Pacific
Panama, and of the paciphile species Malea ringens (Swainson, 1822) in the
Moín Formation (latest Pliocene-earliest Pleistocene), Limón, Atlantic Costa
Rica, indicate that a shallow seaway still allowed intermittent transport of
planktotrophic molluscan larvae between the eastern Pacific and the western
Atlantic during latest Pliocene-earliest Pleistocene time. For much of Late
Pliocene and Early Pleistocene time, the Central American Isthmus would have
alternated between a land bridge during glacial periods of low sea level and
a shallow seaway during interglacial periods of high sea level, until rising
above sea level permanently at around 2 Ma.

This volume should be of interest to those working on Recent gastropod
faunas as well.

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