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 …

The history of Earth's biodiversity is punctuated episodically by mass extinctions. These are
characterized by major declines of taxon richness, but the accompanying ecological …

Enigmatic catastrophic events, involving mass extinction of life forms, have been recorded
several times in the Earth history. In many cases, the causes and mechanisms of these …

In this complete and thorough update of Arthur Boucot's seminal work, Evolutionary
Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution, Boucot is joined by George Poinar, who …

Drill holes, used widely by biologists and palaeontologists to study predator–prey
interactions, provide rich quantifiable data on drilling carnivores and their victims. A …

The Triassic was a turning in the history of biodiversity: bracketed by two major biotic crises,
characterised by major biotic, climatic and tectonic events, it saw the transition from the …

Predators of extant decapod crustaceans are fairly well known, but unlike many other
invertebrate clades, not much is known regarding predation evidence found on fossil …

The history of predation is recorded primarily from drilling in Cenozoic invertebrates.
Quantitative data are uncommon from the Triassic, a period before the appearance and …

The fossil record of drilling predation has been studied in detail for a few major invertebrate
groups (bivalves, gastropods, brachiopods, and echinoids), while other prey (eg …

Ostracods are common yet understudied prey item in the fossil record. We document drill
holes in Paleocene (Danian) ostracods from central Argentina using 9025 specimens …