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Predatory Drill Holes in Paleocene Ostracods from Argentina and Methods to Infer Predation Intensit [Palaeontology, 2019, pp. 1–26] A SMALL YET OCCASIONAL MEAL: PREDATORY DRILL HOLES IN PALEOCENE OSTRACODS FROM ARGENTINA AND METHODS TO INFER PREDATION INTENSITY by JORGE VILLEGAS-MARTIN1 ,DAIANECEOLIN2 , GERSON FAUTH1,2 and ADIEL€ A. KLOMPMAKER3 1Graduate Program in Geology, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos-UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos 950, 93022-000, S~ao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil; [email protected], [email protected] 2Instituto Tecnologico de Micropaleontologia – itt Fossil, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos-UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos, 950, 93022-000, S~ao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil; [email protected] 3Department of Integrative Biology & Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; [email protected] Typescript received 6 May 2018; accepted in revised form 14 December 2018 Abstract: Ostracods are common yet understudied prey in ostracods. The cylindrical (Oichnus simplex) and parabolic item in the fossil record. We document drill holes in Pale- (O. paraboloides) drill holes from Argentina may have been ocene (Danian) ostracods from central Argentina using 9025 caused primarily by naticid and possibly muricid gastropods. specimens representing 66 species. While the percentage of Two oval drill holes (O. ovalis) are morphologically similar drilled specimens at assemblage-level is only 2.3%, consider- to octopod drill holes, but their small size, the fact that able variation exists within species (0.3–25%), suggesting extant octopods are not known to drill ostracods and the prey preference by the drillers. This preference is not deter- absence of such holes in co-occurring gastropods, preclude mined by abundance because no significant correlation is ascription to a predator clade. Drill holes are located prefer- found between species abundance and drilling percentages. entially in the median and dorsal regions, where most soft Seven methods were used, some of which are new, to quan- tissue, including the adductor muscle, is located. Drilled tify drilling percentages for the abundant and commonly specimens are statistically taller than non-drilled specimens drilled Togoina argentinensis. The resulting range, from 9.9% for T. argentinensis and larger predators selected larger ostra- to 14.6%, suggests that drilling percentages are fairly insensi- cods. The drilling percentage does not significantly differ in tive to the method used, implying that comparisons across ornamented ostracods. studies are possible. This information, combined with data from the literature, suggests the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass Key words: predation, ostracod, gastropod, octopod, extinction may have had a limited effect on drilling intensity Danian, palaeoecology. O STRACODS are microcrustaceans that are a food source 2016; Klompmaker et al. 2017) it is no surprise that for various groups, including carnivorous bivalves (Leal drilled ostracods are also known. Drill holes in fossil 2008), gastropods (Reyment 1963, 1966a, b; Bhatia et al. ostracods attributed to predators were first figured by 1989; Ruiz et al. 2011a), fish (Vaske Junior et al. 2008), Livan (1937) based on a drilled ostracod from the Oligo- turbellarians (Smith & Kamiya 2008), annelids (Fidalgo cene of the Mainz Basin in Germany. Subsequently, et al. 2006), scaphopods (Glover et al. 2003), echinoids drilled ostracods have been recorded from the Carbonifer- (Neale 1983), octopods (Nigmatullin & Ostapenko 1976), ous (one specimen, Vannier et al. 2003), Triassic (one amphibians (Hogan 2008) and even other ostracods specimen, Forel et al. 2018), Cretaceous (Reyment et al. (Campbell 1995). As the presence of drill holes is the 1987; Maddocks 1988), Eocene (Maddocks 1988; Bhatia most abundant direct evidence of predator–prey interac- et al. 1989), Miocene (Elewa 2007; Ruiz et al. 2010a), tions in the fossil record (Kabat 1990; Kowalewski et al. Pliocene (Aranki 1987; Ruiz et al. 2010a), Pleistocene 1998; Kelley & Hansen 2003; Huntley & Kowalewski (Maddocks 1988; Ruiz 1997; Kihn et al. 2011; Kihn & 2007; Bardhan et al. 2012; Mallick et al. 2014; Harper Gomez 2015) and Holocene (Hussain et al. 2004; Ruiz © The Palaeontological Association doi: 10.1111/pala.12423 1 2 PALAEONTOLOGY et al. 2010b, 2011a, b; Kihn et al. 2011). From the Pal- Formation (Bertels 1970, 1975; Barrio 1991). The pres- eocene, we know of only three detailed studies identifying ence of Palmoconcha similis (Bertels, 1973) (458 speci- drilling predation in Danian ostracods: one from North mens) and Cytherella terminopunctata Holden, 1964 (71 America (Maddocks 1988) and the others from Nigeria specimens) as the most abundant ostracod species in the (Reyment 1966b; Reyment et al. 1987). Roca Formation indicates the shallower character of the Studies of extant marine invertebrates have identified Roca Formation compared to the Jaguel€ Formation flatworms, octopods, nematodes and principally gas- (Malarkodi et al. 2010). tropods as predatory drillers, and these are potential predators in the fossil record also (Kowalewski 1993, 2002; Klompmaker et al. 2017, in press). Ostracods are Jaguel€ Formation drilled primarily by naticid and muricid gastropods (Reyment & Elewa 2003) but flatworms and octopods The marine sediments of the Jaguel€ Formation are part of have also been mentioned as potential predators (Mad- Malargue€ Group deposited during the first transgression docks 1988). Studies on fossil drilled ostracods are of the Atlantic Ocean (Casadıo et al. 1998; Gasparini restricted principally to European, Indian, North Ameri- et al. 2007). This formation is assigned to the late Maas- can and African deposits thus far (Reyment et al. 1987; trichtian to early Danian (Rodrıguez 2011); the same age Maddocks 1988; Bhatia et al. 1989; Hussain et al. 2004; was suggested for the Cerro Azul section based on its cal- Ruiz et al. 2011a, b; Forel et al. 2018). For South careous nannofossil and ostracod associations (Musso America, we only know of the studies carried out by et al. 2012; Ceolin et al. 2015, 2016). Kihn et al. (2011) and Kihn & Gomez (2015), docu- The deposits of the Jaguel€ Formation consist mainly of menting drill holes in Quaternary marine and freshwa- a homogeneous grey calcareous mudstone (Musso et al. ter ostracods of central Argentina. Recently, we have 2012), containing principally fish teeth (Bogan & Agnolin found drill holes in ostracods from the Danian of the 2010), bivalves (Casadıo 1998; Casadıo et al. 2005; del Jaguel€ and Roca formations (Neuquen basin) of Argen- Rıo et al. 2008), echinoids (Parma & Casadıo 2005), tina. The goals of this paper are to: (1) quantify the ammonoids (Casadıo & Leanza 1991) and decapod crus- prevalence of drill holes found in the Danian ostracods taceans (Feldmann et al. 1995). Additionally, bioerosion using some methods not used previously for ostracods; structures (borings) attributed to polychaete annelids (2) evaluate the cause of these drill holes; (3) determine have been documented on oysters from the Maastrichtian if there is any size or site-selectivity; (4) assess whether part of the unit (Brezina et al. 2014). ornamentation is functional against drilling predation; Micropaleontological studies have reported on ostracods and (5) compare and contrast predation to previous (Bertels 1973, 1974; Ceolin et al. 2015), foraminifers (Ber- studies of drilled ostracods. tels 1980), nannofossils (Concheyro 1995) and paly- nomorphs (Barreda et al. 2004). Studies at the Cerro Azul section have focused principally on micropalaeontology. GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL The section represents a marine environment of low energy CONTEXT and good circulation (Concheyro 1995; Parma & Casadıo 2005). The ostracod samples used herein originate from The specimens described herein originate from the Cerro the Danian upper part of the Jaguel€ Formation (Ceolin Azul section (38°50048″S, 67°52020″W) of the Jaguel€ and et al. 2015, 2016). Roca formations (Villegas-Martın et al. 2019, table S1), which is a relatively new site in the eastern sector of Lake Pellegrini, General Roca province, Argentina Roca Formation (Fig. 1A). The Jaguel€ and Roca formations are part of the infill of the Neuquen sedimentary basin, a foreland The deposits of the Roca Formation cover an extensive basin located in west-central Argentina. The sediments area of Septentrional Patagonia and are considered to be of both formations belong to the same sedimentary cycle shallow-water deposits. The lithology is more variable (Uliana & Dellape 1981). In the Cerro Azul section, the compared to the Jaguel€ Formation (Bertels 1980; Nanez~ & Jaguel€ Formation deposits are overlain by sediments Concheyro 1996) and varies from carbonates to interca- from the Roca Formation (Fig. 1B). The environment lated sandstones, and limestone and mudstones of a grey- for this sequence has been interpreted principally as an ish-green colour depending on the region in which the open marine setting varying from an offshore facies (not formation is exposed (del Rıo et al. 2011). At the Cerro deeper than 150 m) for the upper part of Jaguel€ Forma- Azul section, the Roca Formation is defined by an alterna- tion (sensu Uliana & Dellape 1981) to a shoreface tion of carbonate rocks and greenish grey calcareous mud- environment affected by wave action for the Roca stones. The base of the formation is defined by the first VILLEGAS-MARTIN ET AL.: PREDATORY DRILL HOLES IN PALEOCENE OSTRACODS 3 FIG. 1. A, geographical location of the study area Cerro Azul (star)
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