Adaptive radiations present fascinating opportunities for studying the evolutionary process.
Most cases come from isolated lakes or islands, where unoccupied ecological space is filled …

This chapter summarizes information about ancient hydrocarbon seeps from around the
world. The information is organized into two tables, one comprising both Americas and …

Bivalves are an important part of the methane seep fauna ever since seeps appeared in the
geologic record. The chronostratigraphic ranges of seep-inhabiting chemosymbiotic …

Brachiopods were thought to have dominated deep-sea hydrothermal vents and
hydrocarbon seeps for most of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, and were believed to have …

Fossil hydrocarbon seeps are present in latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) volcaniclastic
shallow shelf sediments exposed on Snow Hill and Seymour Islands, James Ross Basin …

The origin and evolution of the faunas inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents and methane
seeps have been debated for decades. These faunas rely on a local source of sulfide and …

Modern and Cenozoic deep-sea hydrothermal-vent and methane-seep communities are
dominated by large tubeworms, bivalves and gastropods. In contrast, many Early …

Twenty-nine mollusk species from Late Jurassic to Eocene hydrocarbon seep deposits from
California (USA), Japan, New Zealand, and Barbados are described and illustrated. Twenty …

Twelve species of lucinid bivalves are reported from late Jurassic to late Miocene methane-
seep deposits worldwide. Among them, eight species and two genera are new. Amanocina …

Chemosymbiotic bivalves harboring endosymbiotic, chemotrophic bacteria have been
investigated from a variety of hydrocarbon seeps worldwide. It has been shown that carbon …