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Fossil sponges from a localized cold-seep limestone in Oligocene rocks of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

J. Keith Rigby  and
James L. Goedert
J. Keith Rigby
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Room 210, Page School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, and 15207 84th Avenue Ct. Northwest, Gig Harbor, Washington 98329
James L. Goedert
Affiliation:
Museum Associate, Section of Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007
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Abstract

A limited fauna of relatively simple, thin-walled, hexactinellid sponges, including moderately coarse-textured, funnellike Hexactinella(?) conica new species, fine-textured, tubular to branched Hexactinella(?) tubula new species, fragments of delicate Eurete goederti(?) Rigby and Jenkins, 1983, and Farrea(?) species, has been found in the Oligocene Lincoln Creek Formation on Canyon River, in the southcentral part of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. These sponges dominate a chemosynthetic invertebrate assemblage that included the gastropod Provanna antigua Squires, 1995; the polyplacophoran Leptochiton alveolus (Lovén, 1846), and radiolarians. Most of the sponges are preserved as silica in a localized cherty and botryoidal, calcareous cement-filled limestone formed at bathyal depths by bacterial oxidation of methane at a cold seep. This is the third known report of sponges from ancient chemosynthetic deposits.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 70 , Issue 6 , November 1996 , pp. 900 - 908
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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