Marine organisms have occupied hard substrates since the Archaean. Shells, rocks, wood
and sedimentary hardgrounds offer relatively stable habitats compared to unconsolidated …

The boundary between land and sea is among the most extensive and extreme ecological
barriers on planet Earth. Intertidal organisms living at this junction are subject to potentially …

Hiati of various duration in carbonates are commonly expressed as discontinuity surfaces.
The understanding of processes that form and affect these surfaces leads to an improved …

Abstract The oyster Crassostrea? hatcheri (Ortmann) is one of the most common fossils in
Oligocene–Miocene marine rocks in Patagonia, southern Argentina. This oyster is …

Actualistic comparison of size-frequency distributions (SFDs) of life and death assemblages
of the brachiopod Terebratalia transversa from the San Juan Archipelago, Washington State …

Bored and encrusted carbonate concretions, termed hiatus concretions, coming from the
Middle Jurassic (Upper Bajocian and Bathonian) siliciclastics of the Polish Jura, south …

Oncoids from two localities (Ogrodzieniec and Blanowice) of the Polish Jura, southern
Poland, have been investigated with respect to their genesis and paleoecology. These …

The palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of the lower–middle Miocene succession in
Gebel Gharra, NW of Suez, Egypt, are interpreted, on the basis of a detailed study of …

Teredolites longissimus, a teredinid boring ichnofossil, is described from log-grounds found
in the Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Coahuila, Mexico (Upper Cretaceous). Teredinids …

The Early Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) Qahlah Formation is the oldest stratigraphical
unit lying upon the eroded top of the obducted Semail Ophiolite, of Santonian–Campanian …