Deline, 2008
| Author(s): | Deline, B. |
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| Year: | 2008 |
| Title: | The First Evidence of Predatory or Parasitic Drilling in Stylophoran Echinoderms |
| Journal: | Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Number: | 4 |
| Pages: | 739-743 |
| Abstract | Drillholes are common in many different echinoderm classes, but have yet to be reported in homalozoans. A borehole in the Late Ordovician echinoderm Enoploura is the first evidence of drilling in Stylophora. The level of preservation and environ− mental setting suggest this drilling occurred while the organ− ism was alive, thus supporting a predatory or parasitic inter− pretation. |
| Keywords: | Bioerosion, Echinodermata, North America, Ordovician, Paleontology, Parasites, Predation |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2008.0416 |
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