Geographic variation of parasitic and predatory traces on mollusks in the northern Adriatic Sea, Italy: Implications for the stratigraphic paleobiology of biotic interactions

Paleobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 134-153

  Warren Huntley, John ^a   Scarponi, Daniele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOTIC FACTOR; BIVALVE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PALEOBIOLOGY; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE;

ADRIATIC SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA; SPIONIDA; TREMATODA;

EID: 84924521555     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/pab.2014.9     Document Type: Article

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