Snails versus hermit crabs: A new interpretation on shell-peeling predation in fossil gastropod assemblages

Paleontological Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 99-108

  Ishikawa, Makiko ^a   Kase, Tomoki ^a   Tsutsui, Hidekazu ^b   Tojo, Bunji ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastropod; Hermit crab; Mesozoic marine revolution; Okinawa; Pliocene; Predation; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

CRAB; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MESOZOIC; PREDATION; SNAIL;

CAENOGASTROPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA;

EID: 4544302530     PISSN: 13428144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2517/prpsj.8.99     Document Type: Article

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