Mollusks from Miocene hydrocarbon-seep deposits in the Ilocos-Central Luzon Basin, Luzon Island, Philippines

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Introduction
Methane seeps in the deep sea are inhabited by a distinct fauna dominated by chemosymbiotic animals (Paull et al. 1984;Fisher 1995). The high degree of endemism in these habitats, many families of annelids, crustaceans, and mollusks are known exclusively from methane seeps, hydrothermal vents, and sulfide-rich habitats around sunken whale carcasses and wood, and their specialized physiology spurred the idea that these faunas have a long and distinct evolutionary history (Tunnicliffe 1991;Distel et al. 2000;Vrijenhoek 2013). The fossil record provides the primary evidence for the history of life and indeed has provided unique insights into the questions of antiquity and evolutionary origin of these faunas (Campbell and Bottjer 1995;Little et al. 1997;Kiel and Little 2006;Kiel 2015). Especially the Cenozoic record of methane-seep communities is increasingly well documented (Majima et al. 2005;Campbell 2006;Kiel 2010b;Saether et al. 2010a; Kiel and Hansen 2015;Amano et al. 2019b;Kiel et al. 2020b;Hryniewicz et al. 2021; and references therein); however, the most species-rich area of the world's oceans, the central Indo-Pacific Ocean including the Malayan and Philippine archipelagos, is only beginning to be explored for such faunas (Beets 1953;Majima et al. 2007Majima et al. , 2010Kase et al. 2019;Kiel et al. 2020a).
The purpose of this study is to document the mollusk fauna of newly discovered Late Miocene methane-seep deposits in the Ilocos-Central Luzon Basin in Luzon Island, Philippines. The Philippine island arc system is an assemblage of allochthonous arcs, ophiolite complexes, continental and oceanic rocks, and lies at the boundary of the Eurasian and the Philippine Sea plates (Karig 1983;David et al. 1997;Hall 2002;Galgana et al. 2007;Yumul et al. 2008;Aurelio et al. 2013). The north-south oriented Ilocos-Central Luzon Basin is one of 16 recognized major sedimentary basins in the Philippines, and stretches from the vicinity of the Manila metropolitan area in the south to Ilocos Norte in the north (Pinet and Stephan 1990a;Peña 2008; MGB Discussion Faunal remarks. - Amano and Ando (2011) noted that the fossil record of very large solemyids in Japan is confined to deep-marine deposits of Early and Middle Miocene age, with specimens of Acharax yokosukensis and A. gigas reaching almost 300 mm in length. To this we can add the large shells of Acharax aff. bartschii reaching 245 mm in length from the Late Miocene-aged deep-marine cold-seep deposits of Luzon, Philippines. But why solemyids reached so much larger sizes in the tropical northwestern Pacific Ocean in (or since) the Miocene, while typically not exceeding 100 mm in length elsewhere, both in the Cenozoic fossil record (Goedert and Squires 1990;Gill et al. 2005;Kiel 2010b;Taviani et al. 2011;Kiel and Hansen 2015;Pérez-Barría and Nielsen 2020;Kiel et al. 2020b;Hryniewicz et al. 2020) and in the oceans today (Abbott 1974;Coan et al. 2000;Taylor et al. 2008;Kamenev 2009) remains unclear. The nuculid subgenus Truncacila is common at seeps since the Cretaceous (Amano 2003;Amano and Jenkins 2007;Jenkins et al. 2007b;Kiel et al. , 2020b, Nesbitt et al. 2013Miyajima et al. 2018) and is most likely a vagrant taking advantage of the abundant organic matter at seeps (Kiel 2010b). Among the bathymodiolins, the genus Gigantidas appears to have been established in the western Pacific Ocean by Middle to Late Miocene time (Saether et al. 2010b). The large thyasirid genus Conchocele is known from seep deposits since the Late Cretaceous, though mostly from the Pacific Ocean (Hryniewicz et al. 2017). The Miocene records from the Philippines documented here (Conchocele pangasinanensis and Conchocele aff. quadrata) add to the tropical record of the genus (Okutani 2002;Kiel and Hansen 2015;Samadi et al. 2015;Kiel et al. 2020a).
The lucinid Megaxinus gorrospei is the first record of this genus from the central Indo-Pacific Ocean and also its easternmost occurrence. Interestingly, no species of Megaxinus has been found in the recently described Pliocene and Pleistocene seep deposits in the Philippines, whereas it dominates a Pliocene seep deposit in Italy (Kiel and Taviani 2018). The large Meganodontia reached a circum-tropical distribution during the Miocene, reaching from the Tethyan/Mediterranean Sea via Taiwan and the Philippines to the Caribbean Sea (Kiel and Hansen 2015;Kiel and Taviani 2017), with Meganodontia haunuiensis from the Early Miocene of New Zealand being the only extra-tropical record (Amano et al. 2018). Also the two species of Lucinoma present in the Pangasinan seep deposits show links to extratropical areas: L. acutilineata is a widespread North Pacific species (Hirayama 1954;Moore 1963;Majima et al. 2005;Kiel 2010a) and L. saetheri occurs in Early to Middle Miocene-aged seep deposits in New Zealand (Amano et al. 2018).
Among the vesicomyids, Pliocardia ballesterosi is similar to the Japanese P. crenulomarginata and P. kuroshimana, and hence to the actual genus Pliocardia rather than the "cordata group" (cf., Johnson et al. 2017). Although not perfectly preserved, the Pangasinan seep deposits produced the as-yet earliest record of Wareniconcha, a possible record of Archivesica, and two small-sized vesicomyid species of uncertain affinity. The enigmatic Sisonia frijellanae remains difficult to place among extant and fossil bivalve families, having the shell shape, but definitely not the size, of some Galeommatoidea, and also falls outside the known shell shapes and hinge characteristics of extant and fossil Vesicomyidae. It might have a congener in the Miocene of New Zealand and certainly in the Pleistocene of Taiwan.
Gastropods are neither well preserved nor abundant in the Pangasinan seep deposits. Noteworthy is Thalassonerita hagai, representing the first record of this genus from the central Indo-West Pacific Ocean and thus indicating a former widespread occurrence of this genus (Moroni 1966;Taviani 1994;Squires and Goedert 1996;Gill et al. 2005;Hybertsen and Kiel 2018), which is today restricted to a single species, Thalassonerita naticoides, in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea (Clarke 1989;Olu et al. 1996;Warén and Bouchet 2001). Another biogeographic link to the Caribbean Sea is a species of the seguenziid Cataegis, a genus which has persisted in both the Caribbean Sea and the central Indo-West Pacific at least since the Miocene (McLean and Quinn 1987;Gill et al. 2005;Kiel and Hansen 2015;Vilvens 2016;Kiel et al. 2020a). The buccinid Enigmaticolus semisulcata comb. nov. is the first fossil record of this genus, whose extant members live in deep waters of the Indian and West Pacific Oceans. The cephalaspidean Volvulella aff. minoensis, is one of the few gastropod species showing affinities to the Japanese Miocene deep-water fauna.
Biogeographic remarks.-Although composed of clades typically found at Miocene methane seeps, such as solemyids, bathymodiolins, thyasirids, lucinids, and vesicomyids, the fauna of the Pangasinan seep fauna has a quite distinctive biogeographic character. It shows close links to seep faunas in tropical/subtropical regions, such as Meganodontia and Thalassonerita, which occur in the Miocene of both the Mediterranean and the Caribbean regions (Taviani 1994;Kiel and Hansen 2015;Kiel and Taviani 2017). Another link to the Caribbean is the gastropod Cataegis (Gill et al. 2005;Kiel and Hansen 2015), whereas Megaxinus is common in a Pliocene seep deposit in Italy (Kiel and Taviani 2018).
In contrast, the Pangasinan seep fauna shows remarkably few direct links to the well-known Miocene seep faunas of nearby Japan, with which they share only the widespread species Lucinoma acutilineata (Majima et al. 2005) and possibly Conchocele aff. quadrata and Volvulella aff. minoensis. This is a remarkable difference to the Pliocene to Recent situation, where numerous links between the Philippine and the Japanese seep faunas exist (Kiel et al. 2020a). Other links to extratropical areas are Gigantidas coseli and Lucinoma saetheri, two species known from Miocene seep deposits in New Zealand (Saether et al. 2010b;Amano et al. 2018).

Conclusions
The mollusks reported here from the Pangasinan seep deposits in Luzon, Philippines, provide new insights into the taxonomic composition and biogeographic relationships of seep faunas from the Neogene central Indo-West Pacific Ocean. The 19 bivalve species are represented largely by chemosymbiotic taxa, many of which are known largely or exclusively from seep and vent environments. The 16 gastropods include only few taxa that are restricted to seep and vent environments; the others are vagrants from the background fauna that took advantage of the abundant organic matter around the seeps. The fauna shows biogeographic links to other tropical seep faunas, especially in Italy and the Caribbean regions. Only few shared species were found with the well-known Miocene seep fauna of Japan, in contrast to the Pliocene-Pleistocene situation, when such links were more common.

Systematic palaeontology
Class Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758Subclass Protobranchia Pelseneer, 1889Family Solemyidae Gray, 1840Genus Acharax Dall, 1908b Type species: Solemya johnsoni Dall, 1891, by original designation;Recent, Pacific Ocean. Acharax aff. bartschii (Dall, 1908a)  Remarks.-The extant Acharax bartschii is a large rare species known from central Philippine waters (Dall 1908a). It agrees well in overall shape with the Miocene specimens reported here, though the radial ribs on the posterior side are directed postero-ventrally in the extant specimens, whereas in the Miocene specimen they are much more ventrally oriented (see Fig. 2A). Hence, we assign the Miocene specimens only hesitantly to A. bartschii. The Early to Middle Miocene Acharax yokosukensis Kanie and Kuramochi, 1995, from central Honshu, Japan, has a more slender shell, and Acharax gigas (Kanno, 1960) from the Miocene Hiranita and Haratajino formations in central Honshu, Japan, has a much shorter posterior side of shell (Kanno 1960;Kuramochi 1995, 2002;Amano and Ando 2011: pl. 5: 3).
Acharax sp.   (Dall, 1908). A. NIGSPAL-003, large RV, view on outer side of shell. B. NRM Mo 192667, large RV in dorsal view (B 1 ) and view on outer side of LV (B 2 ). C. NIGSPAL-033, large articulated specimen in dorsal view (C 1 ) and view on outer side of LV (C 2 ); note that the specimen is gaping so in dorsal view it appears wider than it is. D. Acharax sp. with only the anterior portion preserved (NRM Mo 192660). articulated specimen with shell partially broken off, from block G from the type locality and horizon. Type locality: The "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines. Type horizon: Seep carbonate blocks enclosed in the Amlang Formation (Upper Miocene).
Material.-Five specimens from block B (NRM Mo 192589-192593), one specimen from block G (paratype NRM Mo 192694), two specimens from block I (holotype NIGSPAL-004, NRM Mo 192659). All from the type locality and horizon. Diagnosis.-Average sized shell for the genus; dorsal and ventral margins evenly convex, subparallel; rostral sinus indistinct; escutcheon broad, wide, oval, lunule very narrow; line of primary divarication displaced toward anterordorsal shell margin, divaricate sculpture disintegrates in anteroventral third of shell.
Description.-Shell subquadrate to elliptical; height/length ratio ~0.65, width/height ratio ~0.8. Anterodorsal shell margin evenly convex, anterior margin acutely rounded, ven-tral margin convex, posterior margin concave; escutcheon broadly oval, with distinct groove and ridge subparallel to margin, ridge with nodular, commarginal ribs, inner part of escutcheon elevated toward ventral side. Line of primary divarication of external sculpture displaced toward anterordorsal shell margin; two secondary lines of bifurcation, one close and subparallel to anterordorsal margin, one posterior at about one third of shell length, divaricate sculpture becomes irregular on anterior third of shell. Anterior adductor muscle scar near anterior end of dorsal margin, nearly round, bounded posteriorly by strong ridge; posterior adductor scar at posterior end of escutcheon, elongate-oval, bounded anteriorly by distinct ridge; pallial line distinct, entire, parallel to ventral shell margin; inner ventral shell margin crenulated. Hinge with up to 20 anterior teeth and nine posterior teeth.
Remarks.-With its elongated shell with nearly parallel dorsal and ventral margins, a very indistinct rostral sinus, and rather unordered sculpture on the anterior half of the shell, this species is quite distinct from other species of Acila and Truncacila. Similar regarding the elongation is a specimen reported as "Acila divaricata (Hinds)" from the Miocene Kabeya Formation in Fukushima prefecture, Japan (Aoki 1954: pl. 1: 17), but that specimen widens anteriorly (rather than narrowing as in A. [T.] interferencia) and has a deeper rostral sinus than A. (T.) interferencia. The late Oligocene to Early Miocene Acila vigilia var. elongata Nagao and Huzioka, 1941, from Hokkaido, Japan, has a more distinct and broader escutcheon and a better defined rostrum than A. (T.) interferencia, and has finer sculpture without the interference-like pattern (Nagao and Huzioka 1941).
Also similar regarding elongation are several specimens reported as A. (T.) nehalemensis Hanna, 1924, from the Eocene Keasey Formation in Oregon (Schenck 1936: pl. 5: 6, 8), and as A. (T.) conradi (Meek, 1864) from the Early Miocene Astoria Formation in Oregon and Washington (Schenck 1936: pl. 8: 2, 3, 5-10, 12, 13), but the ribs on the anterior side of these shell radiate in an orderly way toward the shell margin, quite distinct from the granular pattern of A. (T.) interferencia. All other species reported by Schenck (1936) are shorter and/or more oval, or have a more distinct posterior projection, and more ordered divaricate sculpture. Family Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815 Genus Gigantidas Cosel andMarshall, 2003 Type species: Gigantidas gladius Cosel and Marshall, 2003, Recent from the southern Kermadec Ridge in 360-750 m depth. Saether, Little, Campbell, Marshall, Collins, and Alfaro, 2010b   Material.-One specimen from block A (NIGSPAL-039), seven specimens from block E (NRM Mo 192454-192462), two specimens from block I (NRM Mo 192668, 192669). Upper Miocene of the "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines. Remarks.-The New Zealand specimens of Gigantidas coseli show some variation regarding the expansion of the posterior shell portion, ranging from being almost straight to bending and expanding ventrally (Saether et al. 2010b), which is also seen among the specimens from the Northern Cement Corporation quarry. Genus Bathymodiolus Kenk and Wilson, 1985 Type species: Bathymodiolus thermophilus Kenk and Wilson, 1985 Material.-65 specimens from block B (NIGSPAL-005, 006, 007, NRM Mo 192472-192533), one specimen from block D (NIGSPAL-008), one specimen from block F (NRM Mo 192541), six fragmentary specimens from block G, five specimens from block I (NRM Mo 192680-192684). All from the type locality and horizon. Diagnosis.-Shell small for genus, widening posteriorly; umbo in subterminal position; anterior side broad, evenly rounded, dorsal margin long, gently convex, ventral margin concave; maximum inflation at center of shell.

Dimensions
Description.-Elongate, arched modioliform shell of medium size (up to 57.5 mm), height/length ratio about 0.45, width/ height ratio ~0.8. Surface smooth except for fine growth lines. Blunt ridge running from beak toward posteroventral area; area before ridge depressed, area dorsal to ridge broad and flat. Beak low, prosogyrate, in subterminal position. Anterior margin rounded; ventral margin concave; posterodorsal margin long, convex, continuing into subtruncated posterior margin. Internal groove running from umbones to dorsal side of large, D-shaped posterior adductor muscle scar.
Remarks.-Bathymodiolus labayugensis differs from the Miocene Bathymodiolus heretaunga Saether, Little, Camp- bell, Marshall, Collins, Alfaro, 2010b, from seep deposits in New Zealand by having the umbones in a more anterior position (Saether et al. 2010b). Two fossil Bathymodiolus species have been reported from the fossil record of Japan, the Oligocene Japanese "Bathymodiolus" inouei Amano and Jenkins, 2011 and the Miocene Bathymodiolus akanudaensis (Kuroda, 1931); both have a more angular and more anteriorly situated transition from dorsal to posterior margin compared to B. labayugensis (Kuroda 1931;Amano and Jenkins 2011). The Middle to Late Miocene "Bathymodiolus" moroniae from the "Calcari a Lucina" seep deposits in Italy (Kiel and Taviani 2017) differs from B. labayugensis by having a straight dorsal margin, in contrast to the curved one of B. labayugensis. The same applies to the Oligocene-Miocene Bathymodiolus palmarensis Kiel, Campbell, and Gaillard, 2010, from the Caribbean region Hansen 2015). Family Thyasiridae Dall, 1901Genus Conchocele Gabb, 1866 Type species: Thyasira bisecta Conrad, 1849; Miocene, Astoria Formation, Oregon, USA.
Conchocele pangasinanensis sp. nov. Type material: Holotype NIGSPAL-009, isolated RV with preserved hinge; paratype NIGSPAL-011 from the type locality and horizon. Type locality: The "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines. Type horizon: Seep carbonate blocks enclosed in the Amlang Formation (Upper Miocene).

Dimensions
Description.-Moderately sized, well-inflated shells, W/H ratio 0.58-0.69, rounded-quadrate outline, umbones terminal, blunt, prosogyrate; anterior margin long, concave; anterodorsal area broad, with indistinct internal ridge and groove, bordered by blunt ridge; posterodorsal area wide, bordered by deep sulcus and sharp ridge that form deep indentation at posterior margin, secondary ridge indistinct; ventral margin broadly convex, with slight angulation in some specimens, ending posteriorly at posterior sulcus; outer surface with fine, irregular growth lines. Anterior adductor muscle scar narrow, elongate, detached from, and parallel to, pallial line, length about 2/5 th of shell length.
Remarks.-Numerous species-and subspecies-level names exist for large, Neogene thyasirids from the western Pacific region, and many specimens have simply been reported as Conchocele bisecta (Conrad, 1849) or C. disjuncta Gabb, 1866 (Yabe andNomura 1925;Krishtofovich 1936Krishtofovich , 1964Fig. 6. The thyasirid bivalves Conchocele spp. from Upper Miocene seep deposits of the Amlang Formation in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines. A-D. Conchocele pangasinanensis sp. nov. A. NIGSPAL-009, holotype, isolated RV, view on outer side (A 1 ), seen from anterior (A 2 ), dorsal view (A 3 ) and close-up on hinge and ligament nymph (A 4 ). B. NRM Mo 192588, articulated specimen, view on LV (B 1 ), seen from anterior (B 2 ), and dorsal view (B 3 ). C. NIGSPAL-011, paratype, large LV, dorsal view (C 1 ), seen from anterior (C 2 ), and lateral view (C 3 ). D. NRM Mo 192544, articulated specimen, view on RV (D 1 ) and on LV, showing elongated aams (D 2 ). E. Conchocele aff. quadrata Yabe and Nomura, 1925, NIGSPAL-012, LV, dorsal view (E 1 ), seen from anterior (E 2 ), and lateral view showing aams (E 3 ). Abbreviation: aams, anterior adductor muscle scar. Squires and Gring 1996;Majima et al. 2005;Hryniewicz et al. 2017). A revision of these names and taxa is pending. Virtually all of these species, however, differ from Conchocele pangasinanensis by being more elongate. Species with more rounded-quadrate shape as Conchocele pangasinanensis include Conchocele majimai Kase, 2020a, andConchocele visayaensis Kiel, Aguilar, andKase, 2020a, two Plio-Pleistocene species from seep deposits in Leyte of the Philippine islands (Kiel et al. 2020a). Conchocele pangasinanensis differs from those two species by its broader umbonal angle (angle between antero-and posterodorsal margins) and its posterodorsal ridge and sulcus do not slope downward as much as in the two species from Leyte. Conchocele aff. quadrata (Yabe and Nomura, 1925)  Remarks.-In overall shape, inflation and especially the narrow posterodorsal area, this specimen resembles Con chocele quadrata Yabe and Nomura, 1925, from an unknown locality in Japan (Yabe and Nomura 1925: pl. 1: 1) though it differs from the Japanese specimen by its slightly less truncate posterior margin and the more convex ventral margin. A specimen illustrated as C. quadrata from the Upper Miocene of Sakhalin Island in eastern Russia (Krishtofovich 1964: pl. 53: 1) is more quadrate and has a wider posterodorsal area than both the Japanese and the Philippine specimens.
Type locality: The "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines. Diagnosis.-Subquadrate to broadly triangular, moderately inflated shell; anterodorsal shell margin straight; no lunule; hinge plate short, moderately broad, edentulous; blunt posterior ridge close to dorsal shell margin, posterodorsal area narrow; anterior adductor muscle scar narrow, elongate, length 2/5 of shell length, close to pallial line.
Description.-Shell of medium size for genus, ontogenetic change in shell shape from subquadrate in smaller specimens to broadly triangular in adults. Posterior ridge more pronounced in adults, close to dorsal margin, corresponding posterodorsal area narrow; surface sculpture of commarginal growth lines only: umbones elevated above hinge line, pointed, prosogyrate; posterodorsal and ventral shell margins convex, anterodorsoal margin nearly straight. Lunule large, elongate. Anterior adductor muscle scar elongate, narrow, close and parallel to ventral shell margin, length about 2/5 of shell length; posterior adductor muscle scar just above mid-height of shell, diamond-shaped; pallial line entire, very close to ventral shell margin. Hinge plate broad, short, edentulous, with weak central undulation.
Remarks.-Species of Megaxinus show an ontogenetic change in shell shape, from being circular when small, whereas larger shells are higher with a more quadrate anterior (Glover and Taylor 1997: 8). Megaxinus gorrospei sp. nov. resembles those more angular, large species of Megaxinus, and is hence placed in this genus. The extant genus Rasta Taylor and Glover, 2000, includes shells with very similar shell outline and hinge Glover 1997, 2000;Glover and Taylor 1997;Taylor et al. 2005), but Rasta species are much less inflated than Megaxinus gorrospei and smaller.
Externally, shells of Megaxinus gorrospei are very similar to large specimens of Megaxinus ellipticus (Borson, 1825) from the Pliocene of Italy (Kiel and Taviani 2018), and its anterior adductor muscle scar (aams) is very close to the pallial line, as in Megaxinus ellipticus as illustrated by Sacco (1901: pl. 17: 13) and M. stironensis Kiel and Taviani, 2018. In most extant species of Megaxinus illustrated by Glover and Taylor (1997), however, the aams appears to deviate from the pallial line at a somewhat larger angle, especially at its ventral end, than in the Miocene Philippine Megaxinus gorrospei. Most extant species of Megaxinus have a bulge or convexity in the anterodorsal shell margin , absent in Megaxinus gorrospei.
Megaxinus gorrospei differs from Megaxinus ellipticus by its longer and more acutely rounded posterior part of the shell, lacking a distinct lunule, and its narrower hinge plate. The Pliocene Megaxinus stironensis from Italy has a more roundish outline than Megaxinus gorrospei, even at large size, and unlike Megaxinus gorrospei, it bears a lunule (Kiel and Taviani 2018). Genus Meganodontia Bouchet and Cosel, 2004 Type species: Meganodontia acetabulum Bouchet and Cosel, 2004   Remarks.-Meganodontia hoernea is widespread and frequent in Middle and Late Miocene-aged seep deposits in northern Italy (Taviani 1994;Kiel and Taviani 2017), and the Late Miocene specimens reported here from the Philippines are virtually identical to well-preserved specimens of M. hoernea illustrated in Kiel and Taviani (2017: fig. 7). The extant and Pleistocene Meganodontia acetabulum differs from M. hoernea by its more strongly convex posterodorsal margin and narrower posterodorsal area (Bouchet and Cosel 2004;Kiel and Taviani 2017;Kiel et al. 2020a). An Early Miocene Meganodontia sp. from Cuba (Kiel and Hansen 2015: fig. 7A-C) is more strongly inflated and has a less distinct posterior sulcus. The medium-sized M. haunuiensis Amano, Little, and Campbell, 2018, from Early Miocene seep deposits in New Zealand differs mainly by having a shorter anterior adductor muscle scar (see Amano et al. 2018: fig. 3F 2 ). Two large Neogene lucinids described from Taiwan most likely also belong to Meganodontia. Among them, the Pliocene Loripes goliath Yokoyama, 1928, differs from the Philippine specimens of Meganodontia hoernea by having stronger, more elevated umbones (Yokoyama 1928: 86, pl. 9: 8, pl. 10: 1). The same applies to Loripes pregoliath Hu and Tseng in Hu, 1995, from the Miocene Nanchuang Formation in Taiwan, which is also smaller (L = 75.0 mm vs. L > 100.0 mm in the Philippine M. hoernea) and more inflated than M. hoernea from the Northern Cement Corporation quarry (Hu 1995(Hu : 1995(Hu -1996pl. 350: 4, 6, 7). Genus Lucinoma Dall, 1901  Lucinoma saetheri Amano, Little, and Campbell, 2018  Remarks.-A similar species that should be re-assigned to Lucinoma is Lucina (Myrtea) butonensis Beets (1942: pl. 30: 143-146); the anterodorsal margin of Lucinoma saetheri is more acutely rounded than in L. butonensis. Lucinoma acutilineata (Conrad, 1849)  eata from western North America and Japan show a range of outlines from roundish to pentangular shells (Hirayama 1954;Kamada 1962;Moore 1963). The roundish Philippine specimens documented here are quite similar to the holotype, which was re-illustrated in Moore (1963: pl. 15: 9).
Similarly flat Lucinoma species from the Neogene of the Philippines include Lucinoma aff. kastoroae Cosel and Bouchet, 2008, from the Pliocene Liog-Liog Point seep deposit, Leyte, Philippines and Lucinoma kosatorea Kiel, Aguilar, and Kase, 2020, from the Pleistocene Cambantug   Elliptiolucina sp. Remarks.-Species of Elliptiolucina typically have lengths between 70.0 and 140.0 mm (Cosel and Bouchet 2008;Okutani 2011;Kiel 2013;Glover and Taylor 2016;Kiel et al. 2020a). This applies also to the two species of Elliptiolucina reported from Pliocene seep deposits in Leyte, Philippines (E. ingens Okutani, 2011, andE. fernandoi Kiel, Aguilar, andKase, 2020a), which further differ from the species reported here by having less convex ventral margins (Kiel et al. 2020a). An exception is the Middle Miocene Elliptiolucina neozelandica Amano, Little, and Campbell, 2018, which reaches only about 35.0 mm in length, but differs from the species reported here by being more elongated and having a less convex ventral margin (Amano et al. 2018). We consider the small specimens reported here as juveniles and refrain from assigning them to any described or new species.
Description.-Shell large compared to the type species of Pliocardia, but small compared to members of the "cordata group", reaching 32.4 mm in length; outline oval to subquadrate, posterior margin subtruncated to acutely rounded, ventral and posterodorsal margin convex, anterior margin narrow, more-or-less acutely rounded; posterior ridge and groove poorly developed on most specimens; lunular incision deep, outline broadly lenticular; escutcheon narrow, poorly defined; no external sculpture except for numerous fine growth increments. Hinge plate moderately broad, rather short, three cardinal teeth in each valve; in RV, cardinal strong, pointing anteroventrally, cardinal 3a short, parallel to shell margin, 3b elongate, bifurcated, raised edges, subparallel to shell margin, posterior edge about three time  the length as anterior edge; in LV, cardinal 2a strong, pointing anteriorly, cardinal 2b blunt, broadly trapezoid, with two short raised edges, cardinal 4b moderately long, parallel to shell margin. Anterior adductor muscle scar oval, with narrow connection to small pedal retractor scar; posterior adductor muscle scar round to slightly oval, distinct but not deep; pallial line entire, with shallow pallial sinus.
Remarks.-Most similar to P. ballesterosi in overall shell shape is the extant Pliocardia kuroshimana Okutani, Fujikura, and Kojima, 2000, which occurs also in a Pleisto cene seep deposit in the central Philippines (Kiel et al. 2000). Pliocardia ballesterosi differs from P. kuroshimana mainly by its smaller and less elevated umbones, with P. kuroshimana having the point of maximum inflation in the shell's center whereas it is displaced toward the anterior in P. ballesterosi, and by having a narrower but longer ligament nymph. Another similar species is "Pliocardia" ticaonica Dall, 1908a, extant off Ticao island (central Philippines) and also found in the early Pleistocene Cambantug Point seep deposit in Leyte, Philippines (Kiel et al. 2020a). Pliocardia ballesterosi differs from "P." ticaonica by having distinct lunular incision, which is only very indistinct in "P." ticaonica, by its slightly less prosogyrate and prominent umbones, and by having a less distinct posterodorsal ridge than "P." ticaonica. The Early to Middle Miocene Pliocardia kawadai (Aoki, 1954) from Japan has a deeper posterior groove and associated wider posterodorsal area, and its pallial sinus reaches up to the anterior margin of the posterior adductor muscle scar (see Amano and Kiel 2012: figs. 7 and 12), whereas in Pliocardia ballesterosi the pallial sinus is entirely below the posterior muscle scar, and the pallial line reaches the scar on its ventral side. The Middle Miocene Pliocardia? tanakai Miyajima, Nobuhara, and Koike, 2017, from Japan differs from P. ballesterosi by its more elongate-oval shell outline, smaller and more pointed umbones. Pliocardia? tanakai is also less inflated and thus has a narrower and more elongate lunular area, and lacks a pallial sinus (Miyajima et al. 2017 Remarks.-Archivesica is used here in the sense of Amano and Kiel (2010) and Amano et al. (2019a); in molecular studies, this genus is of often referred to as "gigas/kilmeri complex" or "gigas group" (Audzijonyte et al. 2012;Valdés et al. 2013;Johnson et al. 2017).
Archivesica? sp. 1 orly; LV hinge with three radiating, strong cardinals, 2a and 2b at almost right angles to each other, 4b short, subparallel to dorsal margin.
Remarks.-These specimens have the general outline of other elongate, fossil Archivesica, and also the hinge dentition resembles that of other Archivesica species. However, they are only hesitantly assigned to Archivesica because the available material does not show the taxonomically important pallial sinus. The internal radial striation seen on some of the specimens is uncommon among vesicomyids, but has for example been documented from the elongate, extant West African vesicomyid Christineconcha regab (Cosel and Olu, 2009) (Krylova and Cosel 2011  Description.-Short, oval shell, umbones elevated, prosogyrate, positioned at anterior 27-31% of total shell length; anterior margin acutely rounded, posterior margin wide, broadly rounded. External surface with fine growth increments, internal surface with radial striation; no lunular incision; hinge plate narrow, RV with three thick, short cardinal teeth: cardinal 1 displaced anteriorly, 3a just anterior to beak, pointing anteriorly, 3b just posterior to beak, pointing posteriorly; no subumbonal pit. Remarks.-These specimens show an unusual combination of shell characters. The overall shape (short, oval, little inflation) resembles that of species of Wareniconcha or Calyptogena (see Krylova and Sahling 2006;Cosel and Olu 2009). But the hinge with its strong, thick, radiating teeth is very similar to those of Archivesica nankaiensis (Okutani, Kojima, and Ashi, 1996), A. soyoae (Okutani, 1957), A. solidissima (Okutani, Hashimoto, and Fujikura, 1992a) and A. okutanii (Kojima and Ohta, 1997), all of which, however, are much more elongated and inflated (Okutani 1957;Okutani et al. 1992a;Kojima and Ohta 1997;Okutani et al. 1997;Sasaki et al. 2005). Furthermore, species of Archivesica possess a subumbonal pit, lacking in the present specimens. Therefore, we only hesitantly assign this species to Archivesica.
Genus Wareniconcha Cosel and Olu, 2009 Type species: Vesicomya guineensis Thiele in Thiele and Jaeckel, 1931, by original designation;Recent, central eastern Atlantic Ocean. Wareniconcha sp. Material.-Three specimens from block F (NRM Mo 192537-192539). Upper Miocene of the "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines.  Description.-Medium-sized, moderately inflated, oval shell; umbones elevated, prosogyrate; blunt posterior ridge creating broad posterodorsal area, no escutcheon and lunule; hinge plate narrow, RV with three thick cardinal teeth arranged more-or-less parallel to dorsal shell margin. Remarks.-This locally very abundant, small-sized vesicomyid defies a more precise classification because the available material does not show internal characters such as hinge, muscle scars and pallial line. It is smaller and more elongate than Pliocardia ballesterosi. Its overall shell outline is similar to that of Isorropodon cf. perplexum Sturany, 1896, from Pliocene seep deposits in Leyte Island, Philippines (Kiel et al. 2020a), but that species lacks a lunular incision, clearly visible in vesicomyid sp. 1 reported here. Material.-Seven specimens from block E (NRM Mo 192422-192427, 192435). Upper Miocene of the "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines. Remarks.-This small species is shorter and more inflated than vesicomyid sp. 1 reported above. It resembles the smaller of the specimens reported as Vesicomya margotae Beets, 1953, from the Pliocene of Leyte Island, Philippines (Kiel et al. 2020a: fig. 18A), and is also similar to Vesicomya nakaii Okutani, 1962, for example as illustrated from the Pliocene of Leyte Island, Philippines (Kiel et al. 2020a: fig. 19A). But as internal characters cannot be assessed, we prefer to keep these specimens in open nomenclature.

Family uncertain Genus Sisonia nov.
Type species: Sisonia frijellanae sp. nov., see below. Species included: Possibly belonging to Sisonia are three specimens identified as "Solemyidae gen. indet." from the Miocene Moonlight North seep deposit in New Zealand (Saether et al. 2016: fig. 3B). The figured specimen shows a similar overall outline and muscle scar pattern, though it is much less inflated than Sisonia frijellanae. Further specimens most likely belonging to Sisonia have been found in a Pleistocene seep deposit in Taiwan (SK unpublished data). Etymology: For the Municipality of Sison, where the type locality is located in Pangasinan province.

Diagnosis.-As for the type species.
Remarks.-This genus is difficult to place among the heterodont bivalves. Its overall outline and hinge resembles some vesicomyids, though the strong posterior inflation is uncommon in that family. The most distinctive difference of Sisonia frijellanae from vesicomyids is the rather indistinct and elongate, pear-shaped anterior adductor muscle scar. Vesicomyids of this size typically have a distinct, deeply impressed anterior adductor muscle scar bound by a strong ridge on the posterior side. Trapeziidae have a somewhat similar outline and also lack a pallial sinus, but their umbones is more prosogyrate, and they possess posterior lateral teeth, absent in Sisonia frijellanae. Remarkably similar shell shapes, both internally and externally, can be found among the galeommatoids (Morton and Scott 1989), for example the lasaeid Neaeromya rugifera (Carpenter, 1864) or Bornia sebetia (Costa, 1830). However, galeommatoids rarely reach sizes beyond 10.0 mm and are thus much smaller than the almost 70.0 mm long Sisonia frijellanae. Interestingly, at least one galeommatoid species, the saxicavellin Atopomya dolobrata Oliver, 2013, harbors symbiotic bacteria in its gills (Oliver 2013). Sisonia frijellanae sp. nov.  192594-192596, 192598 (block B), NRM Mo 192707 (block G), NRM Mo 192673, 192674 (block I), articulated specimen with partially preserved shell, from the type locality and horizon. Type locality: The "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines. Diagnosis.-Shell trapezoid to short modioliform in outline, strongly inflated, umbones in anterior third of shell, slightly elevated above hinge line, nearly orthogyrate; blunt ridges running from umbo to antero-and posterodorsal margins, area in between depressed; no lunule or escutcheon, ligament external; sculpture of fine growth increments only, internally with radiating striations; adductor muscle scars indistinct, pallial line entire, apparently no sinus; hinge with two strong, radiating cardinals in each valve.
Description.-Shell reaching 68.7 mm in length, strongly inflated, widest in posterior third of shell, outline short modioliform, dorsal and ventral margins subparallel, posterior margin truncate, anterior margin rounded to acutely rounded; ventral margin concave. Umbones broad, slightly elevated above hinge line, in anterior third of shell; ridge from umbo to posteroventral corner broad but distinct, ridge from umbo to anteroventral corner broad, indistinct; area between ridges deeply depressed, causing concavity of ventral margin; no sculpture except fine growth increments. Ligament short, resting on deeply incised nymphs; no lunule and escutcheon. Anterior adductor muscle scar indistinct, elongated pearshaped, broadening ventrally, situated about midline of shell; pallial line starting just posterior of its ventral base; pallial line faintly impressed, moderately distant from shell margin, undulating, entire, apparently no sinus; anterior pedal retractor scar elongate, connected to adductor scar; poste-rior adductor muscle scar indistinct, shaped like an inverted comma, situated dorsally to groove running from umbo to posterior side of shell. Hinge plate narrow, subumbonal pit and two strong, short, radiating cardinals in each valve, RV with cardinal 1 and 3b, 3a apparently reduced, LV with cardinal 2a and 2b, cardinal 4 may be reduced. Remarks.-Shape and the cancellate ornament of these specimens are very similar to species typically assigned to Bathyacmaea (Okutani et al. 1992b;Jenkins et al. 2007a;Chen et al. 2019  Remarks.-The single small specimen is embedded in matrix, blocking the view on the aperture and hence not allowing an identification to species level.
Cataegis sp.  Description.-Low turbiniform shell, ca. 3.5 evenly convex whorls bearing four strong, equally spaced spiral keels, lowest ridge forming basal margin, surface of keels with fine nodular ornament; growth increments fine, strongly opisthocline; base with three further keels.
Remarks.-Due to the poor preservation of the available specimens, we are unable to assign Cataegis sp. to any existing or new species. Apart from being slightly lower spired, Cataegis sp. is similar to the extant Cataegis celebesensis McLean and Quinn, 1987, from Indonesia, which also has nearly evenly spaced spiral ribs; other species of Cataegis tend to have the keels more closely spaced on the whorl's shoulder and more widely spaced on the flanks (McLean and Quinn 1987;Vilvens 2016). This applies also to Cataegis ramosi Kiel, Aguilar, and Kase, 2020a, from late Pliocene-aged Liog-Liog Point seep deposit in Leyte, Philippines, which has a more distinctive shoulder than Cataegis sp. reported here. The Late Miocene Cataegis godineauensis (Van Winkle, 1919) from seep deposits in Trinidad (see Kiel and Hansen 2015: fig. 14E) has very similar sculpture but a lower spire than Cataegis sp.
The related cataegid Kanoia myronfeinbergi Warén and Rouse, 2016, has a much more angular whorl profile than the specimens reported here (Warén and Rouse 2016). Members of the genus Carinotrochus Zhang, Zhang, and Zhang, 2020a, from seamounts in the tropical western Pacific (Zhang et al. 2020a)  Material.-One specimen from block B (NRM Mo 192583: W = 11.8 mm, H = 9.6 mm).
Remarks.-Homalopoma has been reported from fossil seeps of Cretaceous age onwards. The specimen reported here has much finer and more numerous spiral cords compared to both Homalopoma abeshinaiensis Kaim, Jenkins, and Hikida, 2009, from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan (Hikida et al. 2003;Kaim et al. 2009), and Homalopoma domeniconii Moroni, 1966, from Middle-Late Miocene seep deposits in Italy (Moroni 1966). Species with similar spiral ornament but taller shells and a more convex whorl profile include the middle to late Eocene Homalopoma? sp. from the Humptulips seep deposit in Washington state, USA (Goedert and Squires 1990), Homalopoma wattsi (Dickerson, 1916) from a middle Eocene wood fall in Washington (Kiel 2008), Homalopoma sp. from fossil seeps of somewhat uncertain Cenozoic age in Barbados (Gill et al. 2005), and the extant Homalopoma bicolor Okutani, 2001, from the northern Mariana Ridge (Okutani 2001). Homalopoma tosaense Habe, 1953, reported from the Plio-Pleistocene of Luzon Island, Philippines (Helwerda et al. 2014), is smaller, taller, and has very distinct spiral keels rather than fine spiral cords has the specimen reported here from the Northern Cement quarry.
Of very similar overall shape are species of Phanerolepida, including Phanerolepida rehderi MacNeil, 1960, from the Plio-Pleistocene of Okinawa, southern Japan (Noda 1988: pl. 5: 3) but the Philippine specimen illustrated here clearly has spiral sculpture instead of the net-like rhombohedral pattern of Phanerolepida (Hickman 1972).
Description.-Large neritiform shell, up to 25.0 mm wide, at least two whorls, spire apparently flat; sculpture of 13 oblique axial ribs, interspaces between ribs 2-3 times the width of ribs, both ribs and interspaces covered by fine axial lirae.
Remarks.-The specimens have a thin outer layer that appears to differ in mineralogy from the remaining shell material, and such a layer has not been observed in other gastropods from the Northern Cement Corporation quarry. It is here interpreted as the calcitic outer layer typical of neritimorph gastropods. This is the first fossil record of Thalassonerita from the central Indo-West Pacific and with a width of 25.0 mm it is by far the largest Thalassonerita reported to date. Both the middle Eocene Thalassonerita eocenica Squires and Goedert, 1996, from the Humptulips Formation in western Washington state, USA (Squires and Goedert 1996;Hybertsen and Kiel 2018), and the type species Thalassonerita megastoma Moroni, 1966, from the Upper Miocene of Italy, also reported from the Miocene of Barbados, reach only 10.0 mm in width (Moroni 1966;Gill et al. 2005). An early Oligocene neritid reported from seep deposits in Peru reaches 8.5 mm in width (Kiel et al. 2020b), and the extant Thalassonerita naticoides (Clarke, 1989) has a maximum width of 12.5 mm (Clarke 1989). Furthermore, all above mentioned species have less distinctive axial ornament than Thalassonerita hagai; the extant T. naticoides is nearly smooth. An Early Cretaceous neritid reported from a seep deposit on the Crimean Peninsula reaches just over 20.0 mm in width, but is nearly smooth and might not have any direct phylogenetic relationships to Thalassonerita (Kiel and Peckmann 2008).  Remarks.-Unfortunately, the umbilical area of this specimen is damaged, preventing a generic assignment.  Material.-Two large specimens from block I (NRM Mo 192662, 192663). Upper Miocene of the "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines. Remarks.-Fusinus is widespread in the Indian and Pacific Oceans today (Okutani and Tsuchiya 2000;Snyder 2007, 2019;Couto et al. 2016), but its fossil record from this area is meager at best. Although the preservation of the two Fusinus? sp. specimens is not ideal, they clearly lack the granulate sculpture typical for Granulifusus, a genus common in the Indo-West Pacific and known from several fossils, especially in Japan (Shuto 1958;Hadorn and Fraussen 2005). With their evenly convex whorls, the two Fusinus? sp. specimens are clearly different from those of several deep-water fusinins inhabiting deeper water around the Philippines today, such as species of Latirus Montfort, 1810, and Fusolatirus Kuroda and Habe in Kuroda et al., 1971(Garcia 2001Snyder and Bouchet 2006). Vermeij and Snyder (2018) reviewed large fasciolariid genera (Fusininae) and introduced several genera for tall species with strongly convex whorls and distinct axial ribs resembling Fusinus? sp. reported here. Among these, Apertifusus includes three or four tropical Atlantic species, and Lyonsifusus consists of a few species from the southern Caribbean, including Miocene fossils. Lastly, Ariefusus was introduced for an extant West African species and for the Miocene Fusus prevosti Partsch in Hörnes, 1856, whose whorls are more constricted near the suture (Hörnes 1856) and consequently have somewhat pointed ribs on the center of the whorls, unlike the Philippine specimens.
Family Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815Genus Enigmaticolus Fraussen, 2008  Remarks.-Six species and two unnamed records of this genus are known from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans (Fraussen 2008;Fraussen and Stahlschmidt 2016;Zhang et al. 2020b;Chen et al. 2021). Here we transfer a species formerly reported as Siphonalia semisulcata Martin, 1933, and Siphonalia (Pseudoneptunea) semisulcata, from the Upper Miocene of Buton, Indonesia, to Enigmaticolus, report it also from the Upper Miocene of the Philippines, and regard it as the first fossil record of this genus.
Material.-Two specimens from block B (NRM Mo 192586, 192587), three specimens from block I (NRM Mo 192631-192633). Upper Miocene of the "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines.
Dimensions ( Remarks.-The specimens illustrated by Martin (1933) from the Upper Miocene of Buton, Indonesia, resemble the Philippine specimens reported here in general shape and in having flat, beaded spiral ornament that becomes more prominent on the base. They differ by having more distinctive axial ribbing in the upper part of the whorls, especially on the early whorls (Martin 1933), whereas the Philippine specimens show more distinctive beaded spiral ornament. Even more similar to the Philippine specimens is another specimen from Buton, referred to as "Siphonalia (Pseudoneptunea) semisulcata Martin" by Beets (1942), due to its lack of the strong axial ribs on the upper part of the whorls. Species of Siphonalia and Pseudoneptunea have more convex whorls with much stronger axial ornament than "Siphonalia semisulcata Martin, 1933"; hence the species is unlikely to belong to either of these genera (Makiyama 1941;Cernohorsky 1975;Robba et al. 2004;Zhang and Zhang 2018). Rather, the habitus of the shell, the flat spiral ornament on the upper part of the whorls and the base, the indistinct axial ribs, and fine constriction below the suture, indicate affinities to Enigmaticolus, to which this species is herein re-assigned. Among the extant species of Enigmaticolus, the most similar to E. semisulcata is the type species with its slender shell.   quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines.
Remarks.-This specimen differs from Enigmaticolus semisulcata by being smaller and by having more distinct axial ribs on the whorl's shoulder. In the latter respect it resembles Enigmaticolus nipponensis (Okutani and Fujiwara, 2000) from methane seeps in the South China Sea (Chen et al. 2021  Remarks.-This poorly preserved specimen consists of 2.5 whorls, has straight axial ribs, fine spirals, and two columellar folds. It certainly belongs to the Mitridae, but a genus-or species-level identification is not possible. Family Terebridae Mörch, 1852 Terebridae gen. et sp. indet. Remarks.-A similar species is Gemmaterebra bicorona (Hutton, 1885) as illustrated in Beu and Maxwell (1990: 269, pl. 30 Remarks.-This genus of deep-water raphitomids is known from a few extant species from the Indian and West Pacific Oceans; its fossil record is considered to include Puha pusula Laws, 1947, from the Lower Miocene of New Zealand, and possibly Pseudoinquisitor? cf. P.? pulchra (Schepman, 1913) reported by MacNeil (1960) from the Middle Miocene of Okinawa, Japan (Bonfitto and Morassi 2006;Morassi and Bonfitto 2010).
Acanthodaphne? sp. Material.-Three specimens from block I (NRM Mo 192636-192638). Upper Miocene of the "shale quarry" within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines. Remarks.-These three specimens have the general shell outline and ornament of species of Acathodaphne, but with its protoconch morphology unknown, their assignment to this genus remain somewhat uncertain. The Miocene Pseudoinquisitor? cf. P.? pulchra from the Yunabaru clay on Okinawa (MacNeil 1960: pl. 5: 13) has fewer but more distinct spirals on the lower part of the whorls.
Remarks.-These small (up to 2.0 mm diameter), poorly preserved, low-spired shells most closely resemble species of the heterobranch Xylodiscula, but the imperfectly preserved protoconch prevents a more certain assignment. Xylodiscula occurs on sunken wood, both recent (Marshall 1988) and fossil (Kiel and Goedert 2007), but is also known from hydrothermal vents (Warén and Bouchet 1993) and other reducing environments (Høisaeter and Johannessen 2001;Hawe et al. 2014).
Volvulella aff. minoensis Itoigawa, 1958  Remarks.-The pointed apex characteristic for Volvulella is eroded away in the only available specimen, but its former presence is indicated by the blunt apical peg and the apically broken aperture. The type specimens of V. minoensis illustrated by Itoigawa (1958: 178, pl. 26: 8, 9) from the Middle Miocene Mizunami Group in south-central Honshu, are reported to have fine incisions at both ends; these, too, may have been eroded away in NRM Mo 192641. The other Miocene Japanese Volvulella species reported by Itoigawa (1958) are more slender than V. minoensis.
Similar in shape, size and having a smooth shell is the extant Volvulella ovulina (Adams in Sowerby, 1850) which occurs in 10-477 m depth, from Japan to southeastern Indonesia (Valdés 2008). Slightly more globular and with fine incisions near the base is Volvulella volvulaeformis (Seguenza, 1879) from the Italian Pliocene (Brunetti 2020), whereas the Early Miocene V. staphylemorpha Harzhauser, 2014, from shallow-marine deposits in Kerala, SW India, has a more slender shell (Harzhauser 2014  Remarks.-This small globular shell with about two whorls preserved shows 17 fine spiral incisions on the last whorl and three folds on the parietal and columellar lip, suggesting affinities to Ringicula. Helwerda (2015) reported numerous species of Ringicula from Plio-Pleistocene strata in the Philippines, but the poor preservation of the present specimen does not allow a more detailed comparison.