In press


Kiel, S., Amano, K., Hikida, Y. & Jenkins, R.G. Wood-fall associations from Late Cretaceous deep-water sediments of Hokkaido, Japan. Lethaia doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00105.x

Kiel, S. & Amano, K. Oligocene and Miocene vesicomyid bivalves from the Katalla district in southern Alaska, USA. The Veliger.

 Amano, K., Jenkins, R.G., Kurihara, Y. & Kiel, S. A new genus for Vesicomya inflata Kanie and Nishida, a lucinid shell convergent with that of vesicomyids, from Cretaceous strata of Hokkaido, Japan. The Veliger.

2008

Kiel, S. 2008. Fossil evidence for micro- and macrofaunal utilization of large nekton-falls: examples from early Cenozoic deep-water sediments in Washington State, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 267, 161-174.

Kiel, S. 2008. Parasitic polychaetes in the Early Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep-restricted brachiopod Peregrinella multicarinata. Journal of Paleontology 82, 1214-1216.

Kiel, S. 2008. An unusual new gastropod genus from an Eocene hydrocarbon seep in Washington State, USA. Journal of Paleontology 80(1): 188-191.

Kiel, S., 2008. Amano, K. & Jenkins, R.G. Bivalves from Cretaceous cold-seep deposits on Hokkaido, Japan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53, 525-537.

Kiel, S., Campbell, K.A., Elder, W.P. & Little, C.T.S. 2008. Jurassic and Cretaceous gastropods from hydrocarbon-seeps in forearc basin and accretionary prism settings, California. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53, 679-703.  

Kiel, S. & Peckmann, J. 2008. Paleoecology and evolutionary significance of an Early Cretaceous Peregrinella-dominated hydrocarbon-seep deposit on the Crimea. Palaios 23, 751-759.

Génio, L., Johnson, S.B., Vrijenhoek, R.C., Cunha, M.R., Tyler, P.A., Kiel, S., Little, C.T.S., 2008. New record of Bathymodiolus mauritanicus Cosel from the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic) mud volcanoes. Journal of Shellfish Research 27, 53-61.

Heß, M., Beck, F., Gensler, H., Kano, Y., Kiel, S. & Haszprunar, G. 2008. Microanatomy, shell structure, and molecular phylogeny of Leptogyra, Xyleptogyra and Leptogyropsis (Gastropoda, Neomphalida, Melanodrymiidae) from sunken wood. Journal of Molluscan Studies 74, 383-401.

 Jagt, J.W.M. & Kiel, S. 2008. The operculum of Otostoma retzii (Nilsson, 1827) (Gastropoda, Neritidae; Late Cretaceous) and its phylogenetic significance. Journal of Paleontology 80(1): 201-205.

 

2007

Kiel, S. & Peckmann, J. 2007. Chemosymbiotic bivalves and stable carbon isotopes indicate hydrocarbon seepage at four unusual Cenozoic fossil localities. Lethaia 40: 345-357.

Kiel, S. & Goedert, J.L. 2007. Six new mollusk species associated with biogenic substrates in Cenozoic deep-water sediments in Washington State, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52: 41–52.

Kiel, S. 2007. Status of the enigmatic fossil vesicomyid bivalve Pleurophopsis. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52: 639-642.

Amano, K. & Kiel, S. 2007. Fossil vesicomyid bivalves from the North Pacific region. The Veliger 49(4): 270-293.

Amano, K. & Kiel, S. 2007. Drill holes in bathymodiolin mussels from a Miocene whale-fall community in Hokkaido, Japan. The Veliger 49(4): 265-269.

Harasewych, M. G. & Kiel, S. 2007. Upper Jurassic Pleurotomariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from southwestern Madagascar. The Nautilus 121: 76-89.

McLean, J.H. & Kiel, S. 2007. Cretaceous and living Colloniidae of the redefined subfamily Petropomatinae, with two new genera and one new species, with notes on opercular evolution in turbinoideans, and the fossil record of Liotiidae (Vetigastropoda: Turbinoidea). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81: 254-266.

Banjac, N., Bandel, K. & Kiel, S. 2007. Cassiopid gastropods from the Cretaceous of western Serbia. Annales géologiques de la Péninsule Balkanique 68: 61-71.

 

2006

Kiel, S. & Little, C.T.S. 2006. Cold seep mollusks are older than the general marine mollusk fauna. Science 313: 1429-1431.

Kiel, S. & Goedert, J.L. 2006. Deep-sea food bonanzas: Early Cenozoic whale-fall communities resemble wood-fall rather than seep communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273: 2625-2631.

Kiel, S. & Goedert, J.L. 2006. A wood-fall association from Late Eocene deep-water sediments of Washington State, USA. Palaios 21: 548-556.

Kiel, S. 2006. New records and species of mollusks from Tertiary cold-seep carbonates in Washington State, USA. Journal of Paleontology 80(1): 121-137.

Kiel, S. 2006. New and little-known gastropods from the Albian of the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar. Journal of Paleontology 80(3): 455-476.

Kiel, S. & Krüger, F.J. 2006. Gastropoda aus dem Mittelsanton (Oberkreide) von Lengede (Niedersachsen). Braunschweiger Naturkundliche Schriften 7: 677-696.

 

2005

Kiel, S. & Campbell, K. A. 2005. Lithomphalus enderlini gen. et sp. nov. from hydrocarbon seep-carbonates in California – a Cretaceous neomphalid gastropod? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 227: 232-241.

 

2004

Kiel, S. 2004. Shell structures of selected gastropods from hydrothermal vents and seeps. Malacologia 46(1): 169-183.

Kiel, S. 2004. Presence of a posterodorsal ridge in Jurassic to Recent larval shells of arcoidean bivalves. Journal of Molluscan Studies 70: 314-316.

Kiel, S. & Bandel, K. 2004. The Cenomanian Gastropoda of the Kassenberg quarry in Mülheim (Germany, Late Cretaceous). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 78(1): 103-126.

Kiel, S. & Frýda, J. 2004. Nacre in Late Cretaceous Sensuitrochus ferreri – implications for the taxonomic affinities of the Cirridae (Gastropoda). Journal of Paleontology 78(4): 795-797.

Kiel, S. & Perrilliat, M.C. 2004. New gastropods from the Maastrichtian of the Mexcala Formation in Guerrero, southern Mexico, part III: Higher Caenogastropoda. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 231(2): 191-217.

 

2003

Kiel, S. & Bandel, K. 2003. New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian - Campanian, South Africa) based on newly collected material. Cretaceous Research 24: 449-475.

Bandel, K. & Kiel, S. 2003. Relationships of Cretaceous Neritimorpha (Gastropoda, Mollusca), with the description of seven new species. Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey 78(1): 53-65.

 

2002

Kiel, S. 2002. Notes on the biogeography of Campanian-Maastrichtian gastropods. In: Wagreich, M. (Ed.): Aspects of Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Palaeogiogeography. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommission 15: 109-127.

Kiel, S. & Bandel, K. 2002. Further Archaeogastropoda from the Campanian of Torallola, northern Spain. Acta Geologica Polonica 52(2): 239-249.

Kiel, S. & Bandel, K. 2002. About some aporrhaid and strombid gastropods from the Upper Cretaceous. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 76(1): 83-97.

Kiel, S., Bandel, K. & Perrilliat, M.C. 2002. New gastropods from the Maastrichtian of the Mexcala Formation in Guerrero, southern Mexico, part II: Archaeogastropoda, Neritimorpha and Heterostropha. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 226(3): 319-342.

Kiel, S. & Aranda-Manteca, F.J. 2002. The gastropods of the Coralliochama beds on Punta Banda (Late Cretaceous, northwestern Mexico) and a reconstruction of their paleoenvironment. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 86: 25-36. 

 

2001

Kiel, S. & Bandel, K. 2001. Trochidae (Archaeogastropoda) from the Campanian of Torallola in northern Spain. Acta Geologica Polonica 51(2): 137-154.

Kiel, S. & Bandel, K. 2001. About Heterostropha (Gastropoda) of the Campanian of Torallola, Spain. Journal of the Czech Geological Society 46(3/4): 219-234.

Kiel, S. & Perrilliat, M.C. 2001. New gastropods from the Maastrichtian of the Mexcala Formation in Guerrero, southern Mexico, part I: Stromboidea. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 222: 407-426.

 

2000

Kiel, S. & Bandel, K. 2000. New slit-bearing Archaeogastropoda from the Late Cretaceous of Spain. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Reihe E 34: 269-277.

Kiel, S., Bandel, K., Banjac, N. & Perrilliat, M.C. 2000. On Cretaceous Campanilidae (Caenogastropoda, Mollusca). Freiberger Forschungshefte 8: 15-26.

Bandel, K. & Kiel, S. 2000. Earliest known (Campanian) members of the Vermetidae, Provannidae and Litiopidae (Cerithioidea, Gastropoda), and a discussion of their possible relationships. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 84: 209-218.

 

1999

Kiel, S. & Bandel, K. 1999. The Pugnellidae, a new stromboidean family (Gastropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 73(1/2): 47-58.

 


Invited Keynote Lectures

2007     The paleontology of vent systems. Interdisciplinary conference on vent systems. 17.-19. June, Leeds, UK.

2006     Artenvielfalt in der Tiefsee – von Wüsten, Oasen und Anpassungswegen. 75. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, 28-30 August, Kiel, Germany.

2006     Life on the dark side: Chemosynthetic ecosystems. Herdman Symposium, Geological Societies of Liverpool and Manchester, 4 March, Liverpool, UK.

2005     Immigration into chemosynthetic ecosystems: The last 150 Million years. 3rd International symposium on vent and seep biology, 16-21 September, La Jolla, USA.

2003     Palaeontology of chemosynthetic communities. Biogeography and biodiversity of chemosynthetic ecosystems: planning for the future, workshop, 16-18 June, Southampton, UK.

 

Conference Presentations

Kiel, S. 2007. The evolution of chemosymbiosis. Workshop Frontiers in Geobiology, 13.-14. Oktober, Göttingen.

Kiel, S. 2007. Taphonomie von biogenen Substraten in Tiefwassersedimenten: Fossile Beispiele. 77. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, 17.-19. September, Freiberg. 

Kiel, S. 2007. The evolutionary adaptation of mollusks to deep-sea vents: insights from their fossil history. 16th World Congress of Malacology, 15.-20. Juli, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Kiel, S. 2007. What drives the evolution of methane seeps communities? A deep time perspective. EGU General Assembly, 15.-20. April, Wien, Österreich.

Kiel, S. 2007. Cretaceous methane seeps and their fauna: Distribution, evolutionary patterns, and paleoecologic implications. EGU General Assembly, 15. – 20 April, Wien, Österreich.

Kiel, S. & Goedert, J.L. 2006. Deep-sea food bonanzas (sunken wood and whales): munchies for molluscs. 50th Palaeontological Association Christmas meeting, Sheffield, 18-20 Dezember, UK.

Kiel, S. 2006. The geologic age of seep molluscs. 2nd International Palaeontological Congress, 17.-21. Juni, Peking, China.

Kiel, S. & Goedert, J.L. 2006. The evolutionary history of whale-fall communities. 2nd International Palaeontological Congress, 17.-21. Juni, Peking, China.

Kiel, S. 2005. Wood-falls, cold-seeps, and immigration into transient deep-sea habitats. GSA annual meeting, 16.-19. Oktober, Salt Lake City, USA.

Kiel, S. 2005. Origin of the deep-sea vent faunas: fossils, larval development, and the role of bottom water temperatures. 13th Paleontology-Paleobiology-Geobiology Symposium, 25. Februar, Philadelphia, USA.

Kiel, S. 2004. Shell structures of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and seeps. World Congress of Malacology, 11.-16. Juli, Perth, Australien.

Kiel, S. & Goedert, J.L. 2003. Larvalentwicklung und Verbreitungsstrategien von Mollusken aus fossilen chemosymbiotischen Faunenvergesellschaftungen. 73. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Mainz; Terra Nostra 2003(5): 85.

Kiel, S. 2001. Kretazische Gastropoden als biogeographische Indikatoren. 3,5 Milliarden Jahre Biodiversität, Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft und der Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik, 17.-21. September, Oldenburg.

Kiel, S. 2000. Paläobiogeographie kretazischer Gastropoden aus der mexikanischen Tethys. 17. Geowissenschaftliches Lateinamerika-Kolloquium, 11.-13. Oktober, Stuttgart.

Kiel, S. & Bandel, K. 2000. Muss die kretazische Geschichte der Neogastropoden neu geschrieben werden? 70. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, 24.-30. September, Coburg.

Kiel, S. 1999. Über die Evolution der Stromboidea (Gastropoda). 69. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, 20.-26. September, Zürich, Schweiz.

 

Conference Posters

Amano, K. & Kiel, S. 2007. Fossil vesicomyid bivalves from the North Pacific region. World Congress of Malacology, Antwerpen,15.-20. July, Belgien.

Kiel, S. & Goedert, J.L. 2007. Dead whales as habitats: Invertebrate communities and their evolutionary implications. 11th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics, Melbourne, 10.-13. April, Australia.

Génio, L., Kiel, S., Little, C.T.S., Grahame, J., & Cunha, M.R. 2006. Shell microstructure of mytiloids (Bivalvia). 50th Palaeontological Association Christmas meeting, Sheffield, 18-20 December, UK.

Génio, L., Kiel, S., Little, C.T.S., Grahame, J., & Cunha, M.R. 2006. Shell microstructure of mytiloids (Bivalvia). International Congress on Bivalvia, 22.-27. July, Barcelona, Spain.

Génio, L., Kiel, S., Little, C.T.S., Grahame, J., & Cunha, M.R. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of mytilids from deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems. 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, 9.-14. July, Southampton, UK.

Kiel, S. 2006. Biogeography of vent and seep animals – a palaeontological perspective. Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography: Biodiversity in Space and Time. 10.-13. April, NIEeS, Cambridge, UK.

Haszprunar, G. & Kiel, S. 2005. Leptogyra and Leptogyropsis: Two wood-inhabiting neomphaloid gastropods. 3rd International Symposium on vent and seep biology, 16.-21. September, La Jolla, USA.

Kiel, S. & J.L. Goedert 2005. An exceptionally diverse wood-fall community from Late Eocene deep-water sediments in Washington State, USA. 3rd International Symposium on vent and seep biology, 16.-21. September, La Jolla, USA.

Kiel, S. 2004. Miesmuscheln auf dem Holzweg? Paläontologische Hinweise zu einer molekularbiologischen Hypothese. 74. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Göttingen, 2.-8. Oktober; Kurzfassungen der Vorträge und Poster: 128.

Kiel, S. 2004. Eocene and Oligocene cold-seep molluscs from Washington State, USA. World Congress of Malacology, 11.-16. Juli, Perth, Australien.

Little, C. T. S., Kiel, S., Campbell, C. A., Peckmann, J., Nobuhara, T., Goedert, J. L., Amano, K. & Gill, F. 2003. Biogeography of hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seep communities: A palaeontological position statement. Biogeography and biodiversity of chemosynthetic ecosystems: planning for the future, workshop, 16.-18. Juni, Southampton, Großbritannien.

Kiel, S. 2003. Late Cretaceous brackish water gastropods from the Paita peninsula in northern Peru – indicators for tropical climate. 18. Geowissenschaftliches Lateinamerika-Kolloquium, Freiberg; Terra Nostra 2003(2): 45.

Kiel, S. 2000. Tropische Gastropoden der oberen Kreide und ihr Beitrag zur Paläobiogeographie. 70. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, 24.-30. September, Coburg.

Kiel, S. 2000. Reconstructing Late Cretaceous biotic provinces – contributions from Tethyan gastropods. 6th International Cretaceous Symposium, 27. August – 4. Oktober, Wien, Österreich.

Kiel, S. 1997. Die Oberkreide am Umzamba/Südafrika und die Beziehungen ihrer Pugnellidae. Jahrestagung ’97 der Afrikagruppe deutscher Geowissenschaftler, 20.-21. Juni, Bremen.

 

Seminars and Public Lectures

21/02/07: Origin and evolution of the deep-sea chemosynthetic fauna: Lessons from the fossil record. RCOM-Seminar, DFG-Research Center Ocean Margins, Bremen.

19/02/07: Die Paläontologie von Tiefsee-Ökosystemen. Geobiologisches Seminar, Universität Göttingen.

27/10/06: Life on the dark side: The evolutionary history of deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems. Geologia y Biologia, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Mexiko.

18/09/06: Life on the dark side: The evolutionary history of deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo University.

29/05/06: Life on the dark side: The evolutionary history of deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems. Biogéosciences, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon.

07/02/06: Immigration into chemosynthetic ecosystems: The last 150 Million years. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.

22/11/05: Immigration into chemosynthetic ecosystems: The last 150 Million years. Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.

10/11/05: Life on the dark side: Chemosynthetic ecosystems. Evolutionary Morphology Seminar, University of Chicago.

30/09/05: Evolution on the dark side: The fossil history of chemosynthetic ecosystems. Departments of Biology and Geology, joint seminar, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg.

23/08/05: Life on the dark side: Deep-sea vents and their fossil history. Smithsonian National Zoo, Invertebrate volunteers’ seminar, Washington DC.

21/06/05: Extreme habitats in the deep-sea. Paleontology Training Program, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.

27/01/05: Life on the dark side: Chemosynthetic ecosystems. Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.