Neogene Marine Mollusks of the Pacific Coast of North America: an Annotated Bibliography, 1797-1969
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Neogene Marine Mollusks of the Pacific Coast of North America: An Annotated Bibliography, 1797-1969 By WARREN 0. ADDICOTT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1362 A compilation of reports for the period 1797-1969 dealing with marine mollusks of Miocene and Pliocene age UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1973 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROCERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. E. McKelvey, Director Library of Congress catalog-card No. 72-600313 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $1.50 (paper cover) CONTENTS Page Abstract. ______________________-_-__----_-__----------_----_-____ 1 Introduction.________-__________---__-_-__------_--_---__-_-__-___ 1 Acknowledgments ____-_--_______-----_-------------_--------_---__ 2 Scope and criteria for inclusion....__________________________________ 2 Geographic coverage.______________________________________________ 3 Stratigraphic considerations.__-____-__--_-____-_---__--_-____-__--__ 3 Annotations ________-________-__---_-__-_---------_-_--_-----_____ 4 Style of entries____-___--_-__--__---_--_-___----_---__--_--_-___-__ 5 Indexing. ________________________________________________________ 5 Trends in Neogene molluscan paleontology.__________________________ 5 Bibliography. _____--__-______-___--_-_-____--_----_-_--__-________ 9 Index.___________________________________________________________ 167 ILLUSTRATIONS Pag* FIGURE 1. Map showing generalized outlines of some marine Neogene depositional basins.____________________________________ 2. Graph showing trends in the systematic description and illustra tion of Neogene mollusks_____._____ __________________ HI NEOCENE MARINE MOLLUSKS OF THE PACIFIC COAST OF NORTH AMERICA: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY By WARREN O. ADDICOTT ABSTRACT Reports dealing with marine mollusks of Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene) age from the Pacific and Arctic coasts of North America are listed alphabeti cally by author and year of publication. This compilation covers the period 1797-1969. Geographic coverage is from the west coast of Central America to, and including, Arctic Alaska with comprehensive coverage from the west coast of Mexico northward. Each citation is accompanied by a brief annotation indi cating the nature of information on Neogene mollusks and is referenced in a subject index, generally under two or more headings. Systematic description of Neogene mollusks and the utilization of paleontologic data in other geological reports have gone through a number of rather closely related cycles during the past 125 years. During the 5-year period 1965-69 both kinds of publications reached alltime highs. INTRODUCTION This bibliography includes reports dealing with marine molluscan fossils of Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene) age from the Pacific coast of North America and the Arctic coast of Alaska published prior to 1970. The citations are listed alphabetically by author. Each entry is accompanied by a brief annotation intended to indicate the nature of information on marine mollusks. There is a subject index in which almost all of the reports are listed under a geographic and a topical heading; some of the comprehensive reports are indexed under as many as eight headings. Reports containing illustrations of fossils or systematic descrip tions of new taxa are indicated by setting the author's names in cap ital letters; those in which only previously described fossils are illus trated are also indicated by capital letters but are accompanied by an asterisk following the year of publication. Lower case type is used for all other entries. Although there are a number of bibliographies that deal with Ter tiary stratigraphy and paleontology of individual States, no attempt 2 NEOGENE MARINE MOULUSKS has been made to bring together reports on Neogene mollusks since Dall's (1909c) post-Eocene bibliography for the northwest coast of North America. This report differs from these earlier, less compre hensive bibliographies in including annotations and in having a sub ject index. This bibliography is intended, in part, to complement two system atic catalogs of Tertiary mollusks of the Pacific Coast States: Keen and Bentson's (1944) checklist of Tertiary marine mollusks from California and Weaver's (1942) illustrated catalog of Tertiary ma rine invertebrates from Oregon and Washington. Although these re ports are about 30 years old, a significant proportion of the system atic description of Neogene marine mollusks had been accomplished by the early 1940's. Both of these reports also contain comprehensive bibliographies although Keen and Bentson's (1944) is limited to re ports in which Tertiary mollusks are illustrated or are newly de scribed. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many people have cooperated and have provided assistance in the preparation of this bibliography. The project was initially suggested by Dwight W. Taylor, San Diego Museum of Natural History, in 1966, in connection with a review of the status of knowledge on ma lacology in western North America. The early stages of assembling bibliographic citiations were aided by Helen E. Bailey, formerly re search librarian for the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park. Ellen J. Moore, U.S. Geological Survey, and Wendell P. Woodring, Smithsonian Institution, furnished an unpublished chronological list of papers dealing with Tertiary invertebrate paleontology and stra tigraphy of the Pacific Coast States through 1960. William Sanders and Ann H. Schwabecher, research librarians, U.S. Geological Sur vey, have provided assistance in securing bibliographic materials. Some 40 paleontologists and geologists, actively working Pacific coast Tertiary problems, have kindly reviewed lists of their reports for accuracy and completeness. Finally, Kose M. Trombley has con tributed significantly to the preparation of the report, particularly in the preparation of the subject index. SCOPE AND CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION It is intended to include all reports, including abstracts, published prior to 1970 containing information on Neogene mollusks in this bibliography. The minimum criterion for inclusion is that molluscan fossils of Miocene or Pliocene age be mentioned in a report. Kecords of marine "fossils" in early reports, for example, have been taken to STRATIGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS O indicate that marine mollusks may have been found. Most of these early records have been supplemented by subsequent faunal docu mentation but a few still stand as the only indication that marine mollusks of late Tertiary age may be present in areas that have as yet not received intensive geological study. Foreign journals and paleontological reports in which molluscan taxa from other parts of the Pacific Ocean basin, or other oceans, have been compared with Pacific coast Neogene species have not been thoroughly searched, nor have trade journals dealing with the petroleum industry in California. Unpublished theses are not cited, but publications in which they are listed are included. During the 1920's and 1930's many abstracts of papers presented at the Geological Society of America's regional and national meet ings were published in the Pan-American Geologist in addition to customary publication in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Frequently, the abstract appeared first in the Pan-Ameri can Geologist, but some abstracts are not identical with the official version in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America and presumably were not submitted to the Pan-American Geologist for publication by the authors. Accordingly, citations to abstracts pub lished in the Pan-American Geologist are not included in the bibli ography. There are, however, a few full-length reports appearing in the Pan-American Geologist and nowhere else, such as Carson (1925a) and Howe (1926), and these are included herein. GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE The area covered by the bibliography is from the Pacific coast of Central America to and including the Arctic coast of Alaska. Cover age is intended to be comprehensive from the west coast of Mexico northward. Many of the reports dealing with Neogene mollusks from the Pacific coast of other Central American countries are, how ever, included. STRATIGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS Use of Miocene and Pliocene in this report is with reference to the provincial molluscan standard (Weaver and others, 1944) as subse quently modified by Durham (1954). Because the recognition of European series and epoch boundaries along the Pacific coast continues to be controversial, many of the re ports dealing with late Oligocene faunas in the sense of Weaver and others (1944) and Durham (1954) are included in this report. As recognized herein, the Oligocene-Miocene boundary in the Pacific 4: NEOGENE MARINE MOLLUSKS coast provincial molluscan chronology is placed at the base of the "Vaqueros Stage" of Weaver and others (1944) in California and northwestern Baja California and at or near the middle of the "Blakeley Stage" of Oregon, Washington, Canada, and southeastern Alaska. The "Blakeley" and "Vaqueros" are considered to be in part time-equivalent, according to evidence presented by Vanderhoof (1942) and Addicott (1967b). This boundary corresponds to the boundary between the lower and upper parts of the Zemorrian Stage (Kleinpell, 1938) of the provincial benthonic foraminiferal standard. It should be noted that the Oligocene-Miocene boundary is placed somewhat higher in the provincial microfaunal sequences by specialists in Foraminifera usually