Taylor, 1982

Author(s):Taylor, P. D.
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, straight‐sided 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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