Crinoids for lunch? An unexpected biotic interaction from the Upper Ordovician of Scotland

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 935-938

  Donovan, Stephen K ^a   Sutton, Mark D ^b   Sigwart, Julia D ^c  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; CARNIVORY; FOSSIL RECORDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ORDOVICIAN; SCOTLAND; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

CARNIVORY; ECHINODERM; FOSSIL RECORD; MOLLUSC; ORDOVICIAN; PREDATION; SCAVENGING (FEEDING);

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRINOIDEA; PELMATOZOA; POLYPLACOPHORA;

EID: 77958093747     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31296.1     Document Type: Article

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