Schlagintweit et al., 2013
| Author(s): | Schlagintweit, F., Bucur. I. I., Rashidi, K., Saberzadeh |
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| Year: | 2013 |
| Title: | Bioerosive structures in orbitolinid foraminifera: examples from the Lower Cretaceous of Central Iran |
| Volume: | 58 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Pages: | 5-12 |
| Abstract | Lower Cretaceous orbitolinid assemblages from Central Iran yield various bioerosional structures. The omnipresent traces of different boring taxa and groups (e.g., sponges, calcimicrobes, incertae sedis) represent a characteristic feature of the investigated thin-section material. The assemblage can be attributed to the Entobia ichnofacies dominated by borings assigned to the activity of sponges. The boring galleries are often concentrated in a plane parallel to the test surface, along the boundary of the marginal and the central zone of the orbitolinid tests. The borings are observed in foraminiferan-dasycladalean wackestones to poorly washed-out packstones, which can be referred to a subtidal palaeoenvironment |
| Keywords: | Bioerosion, Cretaceous, paleontoloogia, Trace fossils |
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