Buchia Rouillier 1845
Description
Genus Buchia Rouillier, 1845
Type species. Avicula mosquensis von Buch, 1844
Buchia spp.2011 Buchia sp. —Hammer et al., fig. 7i, tab. 2.
Material examined. 156 specimens. See Appendix 1 for the list of specimens.
Remarks. Species of the genus Buchia are considered valuable index fossils in Oxfordian to Hauterivian strata and are used for biostratigraphic subdivisions (e.g. Jeletzky 1966; Kauffman 1973; Zakharov 1981; Surlyk & Zakharov 1982). The Svalbard seep buchiids probably represent Buchia okensis (Pavlow, 1907), Buchia volgensis (Lahusen, 1888) and Buchia cf. inflata (Lahusen, 1888). A separate paper is planned to formally describe them, and their stratigraphic significance in relation to the ammonite stratigraphy of Wierzbowski et al. (2011).
Palaeoecology. Buchia species were epifaunal byssally attached suspension-feeders (e.g. Wignall & Pickering 1993, fig. 7), often clustering around hard structures (e.g. shells, rocks) providing a substrate for byssal attachment (Fürsich 1982). The species of the genus had a broad ecological tolerance and were present in a variety of shallow to deep marine facies (e.g. Sokolov & Bodylevsky 1931; Håkansson et al. 1981; Fürsich 1982; 1984; Oschmann 1988; Kelly 1984; Wignall & Pickering 1993) and are suggested to have been opportunists (Fürsich 1984; Wignall 1990).
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- Rouillier, C. (1845) [No title. Summary of presentation at meeting]. In: Seance du 15 Janvier 1845. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 18 (1), 289. [New genus: Buchia, p. 289, based on Avicula mosquensis von Buch, 1844; genus valid by ICZN Opinion 492.]
- Buch, L. von (1844) Uber einige neue Versteinerungen aus Moscau. Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, Monatshefte, 536 - 539, pl. 6.
- Jeletzky, J. A. (1966) Upper Volgian (latest Jurassic) ammonites and buchias of Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin, 128, 1 - 51, pls. 1 - 8.
- Kauffman, E. G. (1973) Cretaceous Bivalvia. In: Hallam, A. (Ed.), Atlas of palaeobiogeography. Elsevier Scientific, New York, 531 pp.
- Zakharov, V. A. (1981) Buchiidae and biostratigraphy of the Boreal Upper Jurassic and Neocomian. Transactions of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Science of USSR, 458, 1 - 270. [in Russian]
- Surlyk, F. & Zakharov, V. A. (1982) Buchiid bivalves from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of East Greenland. Palaeontology, 25, 727 - 753.
- Lahusen, J. (1888) Uber die russischen Aucellen. Memoires du Comite Geologique (St Petersburg), 8, 1 - 46, pls. 1 - 5.
- Wierzbowski, A., Hryniewicz, K., Hammer, O., Nakrem, H. A. & Little, C. T. S. (2011) Ammonites from hydrocarbon seep carbonate bodies from uppermost Jurassic - lowermost Cretaceous of Spitsbergen and their biostratigraphical importance. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, 262, 267 - 288. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1127 / 0077 - 7749 / 2011 / 0198
- Wignall, P. B. & Pickering, K. T. (1993) Palaeoecology and sedimentology across a Jurassic fault scarp, NE Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 150, 323 - 340. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1144 / gsjgs. 150.2.0323
- Fursich, F. T. (1982) Upper Jurassic bivalves from Milne Land, East Greenland. GrOnlands Geologiske UndersOgelse, 144, 1 - 126.
- Sokolov, D & Bodylevsky, W. (1931) Jura- und Kreidefaunen von Spitsbergen. Skrifter om Svalbard og Ishavet, 35, 1 - 151, pls. 1 - 14.
- Hakansson, E., Birkelund, T., Piasecki, S. & Zakharov, V. A. (1981) Jurassic - Cretaceous boundary strata of the extreme Arctic. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 30, 11 - 42.
- Fursich, F. T. (1984) Palaeoecology of boreal invertebrate faunas from the Upper Jurassic of Central East Greenland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 48, 309 - 364. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / 0031 - 0182 (84) 90050 - 6
- Oschmann, W. (1988) Upper Kimmeridgian and Portlandian marine macrobenthic associations from Southern England and Northern France. Facies, 18, 49 - 82. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / bf 02536795
- Kelly, S. R. A. (1984) Bivalvia of the Spilsby Sandstone and the Sandringham Sands (Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous) of Eastern England. Part 1. Palaeontographical Society Monographs, 137, 1 - 94, pls. 1 - 20.
- Wignall, P. B. (1990) Benthic palaeoecology of the late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay of England. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 43, 1 - 74.