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First Eocene record of a bangialean rhodophyte (the endolithic microboring Conchocelichnus seilacheri) and coralline red algae from the Pacific Coast of North America

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Microborings made by bangialean rhodophytes and classified as Conchocelichnus occur as filamentous traces within living stylasterid corals or mollusc shells. These microborings have a fossil record spanning Ordovician to Recent within organic calcareous substrates such as mollusc and brachiopod shells, crinoid columnals, corals, and even sponges. The ichnotaxon Conchocelichnus seilacheri, based on microborings within Oligocene bivalves from Germany and Recent shells from the Bahamas has now been discovered in the tube walls of the spirorbid polychaete Neodexiospira vanslykei from the late Eocene basal part of the Lincoln Creek Formation in western Washington State, USA. Our research thus represents the first known interaction of endolithic traces Conchocelichnus seilacheri within fossil polychaete tubes and the first Eocene record of these microborings from North America. Neodexiospira vanslykei was also associated with the calcareous rhodophyte Corallina sp., representing the first Cenozoic record of Corallina from the Pacific Coast of North America.

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We are grateful to Dale Vanslyke for allowing access to the Porter Creek locality and are indebted to Dr. Max Wisshak (Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany) for his invaluable help in the identification of this trace fossil and his help with references. We thank Dr. Gudrun Radtke (Hessisches Landesamt für Naturschutz, Umwelt und Geologie Wiesbaden) and Dr. Guenther Schweigert (State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart) for generous help in obtaining references. This research was financially supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR 18-05935S) and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (DKRVO 2024-2028 2.III.c, National Museum, 00023272). Additional support was obtained from the institutional projects of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology (RVO 67985831), Centre for Geosphere Dynamics (UNCE/SCI/006) and Göttingen Academy of Science and Humanities and Department of Geobiology-Geosciene Centre University of Göttingen, Germany.

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  1. Palaeontological Department, Natural History Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00, Prague 9, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Kočí & Lenka Váchová

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    Tomáš Kočí

  3. Department of Palaeobiology and Palaeoecology, Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, V. V. I., Rozvojová 269, Lysolaje, 165 00, Prague 6, Czech Republic

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  8. Geobiology/Paleontology, Faculty of Geosciences and Geography, University of Göttingen, Goldschmidtstrasse 3, 37077, Göttingen, Germany

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Kočí, T., Veselská, M.K., Goedert, J.L. et al. First Eocene record of a bangialean rhodophyte (the endolithic microboring Conchocelichnus seilacheri) and coralline red algae from the Pacific Coast of North America. PalZ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-023-00678-2

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