This chapter reviews eco-environmental information that can be extracted from the youngest
(surficial) fossil record. The main focus of this review are shell-producing macro …

The variation in time-averaging between different types of marine skeletal accumulations
within a depositional system is not well understood. Here we provide quantitative data on …

A study of patterns of episkeletobiont encrustation on the shells of two early Famennian
brachiopods, Cyrtospirifer zadonicus and Ripidiorhynchus huotinus from Russia, revealed …

Abstract Middle Devonian (Eifelian/Givetian transition) brachiopod-hosted sclerobiont
assemblage from Gondwana (Morocco, eastern Anti-Atlas, Mader Basin) has been studied …

A study of the bioerosion structures and the skeletobionts associated with the most common
bivalves (infauna and epifauna) from the classic Upper Tortonian site of Cacela, Algarve …

Empty mollusk shells may act as colonization surfaces for sclerobionts depending on the
physical, chemical, and biological attributes of the shells. However, the main factors that can …

Skeletobionts that colonized organic hard parts during the early and late aftermath of the
end-Permian mass extinction had been undescribed previously. Evaluation of more than …

Bivalve shells deployed experimentally in a variety of environments of deposition (EODs)
and over a wide range of depths from 15 to 570m in the Bahamas and Gulf of Mexico were …

Surface seawaters are becoming more acidic due to the absorption of rising anthropogenic
CO2. Marine calcifiers are considered to be the most vulnerable organisms to ocean …

In this study we focused on the dynamics of encrusting assemblages preserved on
brachiopod hosts collected from upper Frasnian and lower Famennian deposits of the …