Bivalve Mollusks as Hosts in the Fossil Record

Huntley JW, de Baets K, Scarponi D, Linehan LC, Epa YR, Jacobs GS, Todd JA (2021)

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2021

Original Authors: John Warren Huntley, Kenneth De Baets, Daniele Scarponi, Liane Christine Linehan, Y. Ranjeev Epa, Gabriel S. Jacobs, Jonathan A. Todd

Publisher: Springer

Edited Volumes: The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism: Coevolution and Paleoparasitological Techniques

Series: Topics in Geobiology

City/Town: Cham

Book Volume: 50

Pages Range: 203-249

ISBN: 9783030522322

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-52233-9_8

Abstract

Parasites are ubiquitous in modern ecosystems, occupy one of the most successful life modes, promote ecosystem stability, and, despite their typically diminutive size and lack of a mineralized skeleton, are commonly identified in the fossil record. Bivalve mollusks have occupied marine aquatic environments since the Cambrian, comprise an excellent fossil record, and often preserve traces of interactions with their parasites. Here we review parasite-host interactions of living bivalves and the record of parasitism of bivalves that reaches as far back as the Silurian. Escalation in parasite-host bivalve interactions seems to have occurred in both the middle Paleozoic and the late Mesozoic to Cenozoic, similar to trends documented in other antagonistic interactions.

Authors with CRIS profile

Kenneth de Baets Lehrstuhl für Paläoumwelt

Additional Organisation(s)

Geozentrum Nordbayern

Related research project(s)

Constraining the deep origin of metazoan parasitism through integration of Evolutionary Parasitology and Molecular Paleobiology Jan. 1, 2017 - Dec. 31, 2017

Involved external institutions

University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou) US United States (USA) (US) University of Bologna / Università di Bologna IT Italy (IT) Natural History Museum London GB United Kingdom (GB)

How to cite

APA:

Huntley, J.W., de Baets, K., Scarponi, D., Linehan, L.C., Epa, Y.R., Jacobs, G.S., & Todd, J.A. (2021). Bivalve Mollusks as Hosts in the Fossil Record. In Kenneth De Baets, John Warren Huntley (Eds.), The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism: Coevolution and Paleoparasitological Techniques. (pp. 203-249). Cham: Springer.

MLA:

Huntley, John Warren, et al. "Bivalve Mollusks as Hosts in the Fossil Record." The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism: Coevolution and Paleoparasitological Techniques. Ed. Kenneth De Baets, John Warren Huntley, Cham: Springer, 2021. 203-249.

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