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The earliest true Spirorbinae from the late Bathonian and Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of France, Israel and Madagascar

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Two new spirorbin species, Neomicrorbis israelicus sp. nov. and Spirorbis? hagadolensis sp. nov., are here described from the Callovian of Israel, together with two new variations of Neomicrorbis israelicus from the late Bathonian of northern France and Callovian of Madagascar. These are the geologically earliest true Spirorbinae. Our new data, and a literature review of microconchids and early spirorbins, suggest that the ecological switchover from spirorbiform microconchids to spirorbin polychaetes took place in the late Bathonian, and that the spread of spirorbins across the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous seas was rapid. The ecospace of spirally coiled spirorbiform microconchids could thus have been competitively taken over by true spirorbins. The true spirorbin polychaetes may have been ecologically more successful than their Paleozoic analogues – the microconchids. The general rarity of spirorbin-bearing localities in Europe from the Bathonian to Albian supports the hypothesis that the Spirorbinae likely originated in the equatorial Tethys and only occasionally spread to the northern hemisphere seas until the end of the Early Cretaceous. Spirorbins finally became common, diverse and widespread in the northern seas by the Late Cretaceous, and even more so in the Cenozoic.

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O.V. was supported by a research grant from the Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, and a Sepkoski Grant from the Paleontological Society. Kalle Kirsimäe (University of Tartu) is cordially thanked for assistance with SEM. M.W. thanks the Geological Survey of Israel (GSI) for field support and handling the collecting permits. We especially thank Yoav Avni of the GSI for his field skills. M.W. also thanks The College of Wooster for support through the Wengerd Fund. M.J. thanks O.V., M.W. and T.K. for initiating the present study by discussing the specimens from Israel and thereby encouraging M.J. to describe his specimens from Madagascar and France, a plan which M.J. had intended to do since the late 1990s but did not do until recently, due to chronic lack of time and due to insecurity in the late 2000s and early 2010s about differentiating his spirorbins from microconchids. M.J. also thanks his wife Elke Langstein-Jäger for her help with photography and Photoshop CS6, and Uwe Rudek, Dotternhausen from Fotofreunde Balingen who took the best photographs of the tiny tubes from Luc-sur-Mer and Madagascar. We are grateful to journal reviewers Elena Kupriyanova and Michał Zatoń for their valuable suggestions.

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Vinn, O., Wilson, M.A., Jäger, M. et al. The earliest true Spirorbinae from the late Bathonian and Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of France, Israel and Madagascar. PalZ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-023-00681-7

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