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Lzlp Herela Imla Y, New Genus, in the United States The Mesozoic Pelecypods Otc/pirilz Marwick and Lzlp herela Imlay, New Genus, in the United States By RALPH W. IMLAY CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEONTOLOGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 573-B - -- -- -- UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1967 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY William T. Pecora, Director For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price 25 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS Page Page Abstract --------- ------------ ---- --- - - --- - - ---- --- - B1 Biological relationships- - _ _ __------ --- -- - - - ---- --- -- B2 Introduction- -----------------..-------------------- 1 Comparisons of species -________-_------------------- 3 Characteristics of Otapiria- _------------.. - --- --- - --- - 1 Systematic descriptions _-_-___ --- - - --- ---- ---- ---- - 3 Characteristics of Lupherella Imlay, n. gen 2 Literature cited __-_._________-----------10 ILLUSTRATIONS [Plates follow "Literature Cited"] PLATE 1. Otapiria. 2. Lupherella, n. gen., and Otapiria. Page FIGURE1. Index map showing occurrences of the pelecypod Otapiria in Alaska .________---_--------A-- ---------------- B7 2. Index map showing occurrences of Lupherella boechiformis (Hyatt) in Oregon and California- - - ._ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ - - - _ _ 9 TABLES .. Page TABLE 1. Distribution of Otapzrza in space and time- -_----____-_- _-----.. ---- - _-_.._--- -- - --- - - ---- -- - - ---..------. - - B2 2. Comparisons of Triassic and Jurassic species of Otapiria ___--__-__---__-_-_----______-_-------------------4 3. Comparisons of measurements of some Jurassic species of Otapiria and Lupherella __.______-------------------5 111 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEONTOLOGY THE MESOZOIC PELECYPODS OTAPIRIA MARWICK AND LUPHERELLA IMLAY, NEW GENUS IN THE UNITED STATES ABSTRArn to determine khe generic and family relationships of The pelecypod genera Otapiria Marwick and Lupherella Lupherelh made the writer familiar with the character- Imlay, n. gen., both resembling the late Triassic genus Monotis, istics of Otapiria and led to the identification of are recorded for the first ltime from Mesozoic bed's in the United Otapiria soon after its discovery in Alaska. Shtes. Lupherella is represented by L. bocchifomis (Hyatt) from beds of Pliensbachian age in eastern Oregon and Cali- Many thanks are due to Mr. J. A. Jeletsky of the fornia. It has not been found elsewhere. One spies of Geological Survey of Canada for his aid in locating Otapiria, named 0. taillcuri Imlay, n. sp., has been found in pertinent Russian publications. Mr. Ian Spsden of the northern Alaska associated with or directly underlying Inocera- New Zealand Geological Survey kindly furnished nzus cf. I. lucifw Eichwald, whose presence indicates an early rubber imprints and descriptive data of Otapiria mr- Middle Jurassic or late Barly Jurassic age not older than Toarcian. Another species, referred to as 0.sp. undet., has been shdli (Trechmann), the type species of Otapiria. found as float in the upper Yukon Tralley in eastcentral Alaska. CHARACTERISTICS OF OTAPIRIA Its age is unknown, but the presence of the crinoid Pentacrinzis subangularis var. alaska Springer in the same float indicates The genus Otapim'a was defined by Marwick in 1935 that beds of Early Jurassic age are present in the area. Otapiria (p. 302), and Pseudomonotis marshalli (Trechmann) has been found previously in Upper Triassic to Upper Jurassic beds in New Zealand, Lower Jurassic beds in New Caledonia, (1923, p. 270, pl. 15, figs. 6-9) from the Jurassic of New and Upper Triamic to Lower Jurassic beds in northeastern Zealand was designated the type species (pl. 1, figs. 24, Siberia. 25). Detailed comparisons were made with the pelecy- INTTRODUCTION pods Entornonotis Marwick (1935, p. 298) and Echino- The recent discovery of a monatidlike pelecypod in tis. Marwick's definition, based soldy on the type northern Alaska prompted the preparation of this species, was modified slightly in 1953 (p. 95) when he paper. This pelecypod was found in a thin unit of or- included in the genus two other species from New ganic shale directly overlying Upper Triassic beds and Zealand. The modified definition is as follows: directly underlying, at least locally, Lo\~erCretaceous Shell of moderate size, obliquely ovate, inequivalve, right beds containing Buchia of Valanginian age. It sho~~edralve less inflated than left, posterior wing well developed. considerable resemblance to the genotype species of Ota- Sculpture of numerous close wavy radials, left [sic right] valve piria Marwick (1935, p. 303; 1953, p. 95) from basal with weaker radials or smooth. Right valve with small ante- Jurassic beds in New Zealand (Trechmann, 1923, p. 270, rior ear, bounded by a deep groove without a deep notch. pl. 15, figs. 6-9; Marwick, 1953, p. 95, pl. 11, figs. 7, 8) This definition does not mention the characteristics of and to a species of Otapiria from basal Jurassic beds the hinge area which Marwick (1935, p. 302) had de- in northeastern Siberia (Zakharov, 1962, p. 25-29, pl. 1, scribed in his original definition as follows : figs. 1-16, pl. 2). Further study showed that the generic assignment to Otapirk was correct and that the genus Hinge area narrow, edentulous. Ligament set in a strongIy and regularly grooved triangular-pit, the base of which is about has a fairly wide distribultion in Upper Triassic and half the length of the posterior dorsal margin. Left valve with Jurassic beds of the Indo-Pacific and Arctic regions. the hinge margin sinused upwards and inwards immediately in The paper also includes a description of a new genus front of the umbo, but further forward the margin projects out- of another monotidlike pelecypod from beds of late n-ards and bears several deep grooves. Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) age in Oregon and These characteristics of the hinge area of Otapiriu California. This pelecypod, herein named LuphereZla marshaZZi (Trechmann) were depicted in drawings n. gen., greatly resembles Otapiria and appears to be (Marwick, 1935, pl. 36, figs. 28-32,34,35) for compari- closely related to that genus. Attempts over many years sons with similar drawings of en to mono ti,^ (Marwick, B2 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEONTOLOGY 1935, pl. 35, figs. 13-17, pl. 36, figs. 18-24, 33), and bing, and a long instead of a short posterior wing. An Echinotis (Marwick, 1935, pl. 36, figs. 25-27). They anterior wing on the left valve, as in Lupherella, is have not yet been found as well preserved on any other present on some left valves in both Monotis (Marwick, species of Otapiria. 1935, p. 298) and Meleugrinella (Cox, 1940, p. 90, 91). The additional species of subsequently dis- Otapiria BIOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS covered in northeastern Siberia (Pchelintseva, 1955, p. 213 ; Zakharov, 1962, p. 25-29 ; Vozin and Tikhomirova, Otapiria and Lupherella resemble each other so much 1964, p. 18) and in Alaska (table 1) show that the genus that they may reasonably be placed in the same family, is characterized by an obliquely elongate form, a weakly but that iamily assignment is uncertain. Otupiria was convex to flat right valve, wavy radial ribs of irregular placed in the Pteriidae by Marwick (1935, p. 302; 1953, strength and spacing, low broad irregularly spaced con- p. 53,94) and by Cox and Arkell (1948, p. 7) and in the centric ribs, a narrow endentulous hinge, a small byssd Monotidae by Zakharov (1962, p. 23-25), and mas dis- ear on the right valve, and a fairly distinct posterior cussed under the Monotidae by Ichikawa (1958, p. 166- wing that merges evenly with the body of the shell. The 168). The genus was not assigned to the Monotidae posterior wing ranges in length from fairly short to by Ichikawa (1958, p. 198) beoause it has a deep liga- moderate. mental pit, which according to Ichikawa (1958, p. 166 and footnote at bottom of p. 168) is probably absent in TABLE1.-Distribution of Otapiria in space and time the Monotidae. Otapiria was compared by Marwick Species oj Otapiria Distribution Age (1935, p. 302) with the genera Entomonotis Marwick 0.ussuriensis (Voronetz). Northeastern Siberia ..... Late Triassic (Karnian). 0.dissimilis (Cox) ......... New Zealand ............. Late Triassic (Rhaetian). (1935, p. 298) and Echinotis Marwick (1935, p. 301). 0. marshalli (Trechmann) New Zealand and New Early Jurassic (Hettan- Caledonia. gian and Sinemurian). Of these, Entom~onotisis now considered la subgenus of 0.limaejormis Zakharov..- Northeastern Siberia-..-- Early Jurassic (Hettan- gian and Sinemurian). 2Monotis by Ichika~va(1958, p. 170) and a synonym of 0.tailleuri Imlay, n. sp.... Northern Alaska ......... Early Jurassic to middle Bajocian. Monotis by most authorities (Muller, 1938; Marwick, 0. masoni Marwick ........ New Zealand.. .......... Late Jurassic (Kimmeridg- ian) . 1953, p. 57; Tozer, 1961, p. 107; Westermann, 1963, p. 0. sp. undet ............... East-central Alaska ...... Unknown. 756). Echinotis is recognized as a synonym of Meleag- CHARACTERISTICS OF LUPHERELLA IMLAY, N. G.EN. rinella Whitfield (1885, p. 71; Cox, 1941; Marwick, Lupherella is characterized by a broadly ovate to 1953, p. 94). obliquely ovate form, a gently convex right valve that The biological affinities of Otapiria were stated by is slightly less convex than the left valve, highly vari- Marwick (1935, p. 302) as follows: able radial and concentric ribs, fairly long posterior Otapiria is nearest to Entomonotis in general characters wings, a weak anterior wing on many left valves, a and may be the Jurassic descendent of that stock. Otapiria has byssal ear on the right valve, and a fairly long dorsal much finer sculpture, an exceptionally ovate shape, and the margin. The hinge is probably edentulous, consider- hinge of the left valve has a sinus instead of a projection imme- diately in front of the ligament and beak. The ligament-pit is ing that the right and left valves have not been found more deeply entrenched than thait of Entornonotis, thus resem- together. The type species of LupherelZa is DaomlZa bling Echinotis, but the well incised parallel grooves inc~easethe hoechiformis Hyatt (1894, p. 415; Crickmay, 1933, p. affinity with Entornonotis.
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