The following persons and organizations are kindly acknowledged. Financing: The German Research Foundation (DFG) (Project KR 1902/2-2) and the Geoscience for Ocean Management Program of the Geological Survey of Canada. Technical help: Crew of CCGS John P. Tully. Slurp gun samples: Delta Submersible Company. Scanning electron microscopy: Lewis Ling, Patrick Höss. Access to the Schmalzriedt specimens at the University of Tübingen: Wilfried Rönnfeld, Curator of Paleontology. Improving English diction: R. Tim Patterson. Discussions and advice (in alphabetic order): Elisabeth Alve, Tomas Cedhagen, Andrew Gooday, Hugh Grenfell, Bruce Hayward, James Ingle, Karen Luise Knudsen, Sergei Korsun, Leon Moodley, Jenø Nagy, Tim Patterson, Johanna Resig, Khadija Saidova, Dieter Schmid and Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz in addition to two unidentified reviewers.