Taylor, 1982
| Author(s): | Taylor, P. D. |
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| Year: | 1982 |
| Title: | Probable predatory borings in late Cretaceous bryozoans |
| Journal: | Lethaia |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 67-74 |
| Abstract | Borings are described in zooids of Cenomanian to Campanian melicerititids, an aberrant group of cyclostome bryozoans with calcified opercula. The borings are circular or elliptical, straightâsided and have a diameter of 40–90 μn. Autozooids were drilled in preference to heterozooids and most borings penetrate the operculum. The shape and distribution of boreholes suggests that they were made by a predator attacking one zooid at a time. The predator responsible may have been a gastropod, most probably a nudibranch or a micromorphic muricid. Bryozoa, Gastropoda, predation, borings, Upper Cretaceous. |
| Keywords: | Bioerosion, Cretaceous, paleontoloogia, Predation, Trace fossils |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1982.tb01976.x |
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