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 …

Paleontological research on predation has been expanding rapidly in scope, methods, and
goals. The growing assortment of research strategies and goals has led to increasing …

Any treatment of durophagous (shell-breaking) predation on bivalves and gastropods
through geologic time must address the molluscivore's signature preserved in the victim's …

In the last 40 years, there has been a dramatic increase in our knowledge about predator–
prey interactions in the fossil record. Studies have become more focussed to testing specific …

Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution of predators involved a series of episodes. Predators
rebounded rather rapidly after the Permo-Triassic extinction and by the Middle Triassic a …

Fossil evidence of biotic interactions is of considerable importance in understanding broad-
scale evolutionary patterns and has long attracted the interest of paleontologists (Clarke …

… the snail, whose tender horns being hit Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain,
And there, all smothered up, in shade doth sit, Long after fearing to creep forth again …

Exceptionally neomorphosed bivalves from a range of Jurassic sediments from England and
North Ireland have been discovered to bear neat, circular, straight-sided boreholes over a …

The relationship between predator and prey is a persistent theme in marine paleontology.
Herein we focus on the decapod Crustacea, the shrimps, lobsters, and crabs, and their role …

The importance of ecological interactions in driving the evolution of animals has been the
focus of intense debate among paleontologists, evolutionary biologists, and …