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Neogastropod molluscs from the Miocene of western Amazonia, with comments on marine to freshwater transitions in molluscs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Geerat J. Vermeij  and
Frank P. Wesselingh
Geerat J. Vermeij
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Center for Population Biology, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis 95616,
Frank P. Wesselingh
Affiliation:
Department of Cenozoic Mollusca, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, P O Box 9517 2300 RA, Leiden The Netherlands, and Biodiversity Unit, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland,
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Abstract

Two neogastropod species occur in brackish intervals in the Pebas Formation (late Middle to early Late Miocene) of Peru and Colombia in western Amazonia. Purpura woodwardi Roxo, 1924, is assigned to Melongena Schumacher, 1817 (Melongenidae), and ?Nassarius reductus (Nassariidae) is recognized as a new species. These gastropods are among the very few marine invaders in the otherwise freshwater Pebas fauna. The small number of marine to freshwater transitions among South American molluscs contrasts with the situation among South American fishes and southeast Asian molluscs. It may be related to seasonal fluctuations in water level and anoxia in present-day South American freshwater environments, as well as to predation and productivity.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 76 , Issue 2 , March 2002 , pp. 265 - 270
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