Gordillo, 2013

Author(s):Gordillo, S.
Year:2013
Title:Muricid boreholes in Pleistocene acorn barnacles from the Beagle Channel: trophic interactions during the Last Interglacial in southern South America
Journal:Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
Volume:37
Number:4
Pages:479-486
Abstract

Acorn barnacles with boreholes were recovered from a Pleistocene marine deposit on Navarino Island, on the southern coast of the Beagle Channel. Balanomorph shells were identified as Balanus laevis (Bruguière, 1789), and a few bear small round holes located generally on the middle or apical part of the parietal plates, thus suggesting that they represent the work of small muricid predators. If so, this study is the first record of drilling predation on fossil barnacles reported in southern South America.

Keywords:Bioerosion, paleontoloogia, Pleistocene , Trace fossils
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2013.792458
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