Predation in the marine fossil record: studies, data, recognition, environmental factors, and behavior

AA Klompmaker, PH Kelley, D Chattopadhyay… - Earth-science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The fossil record is the primary source of data used to study predator-prey interactions in
deep time and to evaluate key questions regarding the evolutionary and ecological …

One fossil record, multiple time resolutions: disparate time-averaging of echinoids and mollusks on a Holocene carbonate platform

M Kowalewski, S Casebolt, Q Hua… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Our quantitative understanding of the temporal resolution of the fossil record is largely based
on numerical dating of Holocene bivalves. However, for paleontologically important taxa …

[PDF][PDF] Hunting evidence for the Mesozoic Marine Revolution: progress and challenges

EM HarPer - Bollettino Della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 2022 - paleoitalia.it
The 1970's saw a stream of papers that crystallised the notion of a “Mesozoic Marine
Revolution” during which the pace and intensity of biotic interactions (predation, competition …

An asynchronous Mesozoic marine revolution: the Cenozoic intensification of predation on echinoids

E Petsios, RW Portell, L Farrar… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Predation traces found on fossilized prey remains can be used to quantify the evolutionary
history of biotic interactions. Fossil mollusc shells bearing these types of traces provided key …

Structural design of the minute clypeasteroid echinoid Echinocyamus pusillus

TB Grun, JH Nebelsick - Royal Society Open Science, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The clypeasteroid echinoid skeleton is a multi-plated, light-weight shell construction
produced by biomineralization processes. In shell constructions, joints between individual …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking biases in the regular echinoid fossil record: The case of Paracentrotus lividus in recent and fossil shallow-water, high-energy environments

A Mancosu, JH Nebelsick - 2020 - palaeo-electronica.org
The poor fossil record of regular echinoids is commonly attributed to the fact that they
preferentially live as epibenthic grazers on hard rocky substrates in nearshore environments …

Sedimentology and ichnology of the mid-Cretaceous succession of the Ouled Nail Mounts (Eastern Saharan Atlas, Algeria)

MN Naimi, A Cherif - Geologia Croatica, 2021 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Shallow marine deposits characterize the upper Albian–lower Cenomanian
deposits of Northern Algeria. In Djebel Azzeddine (Ouled Nail Mounts), the corresponding …

Ecology of clypeasteroids

JH Nebelsick - Developments in aquaculture and fisheries science, 2020 - Elsevier
Clypeasteroids are a relatively young clade of echinoids that can dominate in higher energy
environments, but also can occur over wide areas of the shelf as well as in deeper …

Characterization of traces of predation and parasitism on fossil echinoids

L Farrar, E Graves, E Petsios, RW Portell… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Interactions with predators and parasites can result in traces found on Recent and fossil
echinoids. However, identifying specific trace makers, particularly on fossil echinoids …

[PDF][PDF] Ecomorphological and taphonomic gradients in clypeasteroid-dominated echinoid assemblages along a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate shelf from the early …

A Mancosu, JH Nebelsick - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017 - bibliotekanauki.pl
Clypeasteroid echinoids are widespread and abundant within Miocene sedimentary
sequences of the Mediterranean area within both siliciclastic and carbonate deposits …