Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities

PD Taylor, MA Wilson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
Marine organisms have occupied hard substrates since the Archaean. Shells, rocks, wood
and sedimentary hardgrounds offer relatively stable habitats compared to unconsolidated …

Palaeoecology and diversity of endosymbionts in Palaeozoic marine invertebrates: trace fossil evidence

L Tapanila - Lethaia, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Endosymbionts are organisms that live within the growing skeleton of a live host organism,
producing a cavity called a bioclaustration. The endosymbiont lives inside the …

A prejudiced review of ancient parasites and their host echinoderms: CSI Fossil Record or just an excuse for speculation?

SK Donovan - Advances in Parasitology, 2015 - Elsevier
Recognizing the presence of a parasite and identifying it is a relatively straightforward task
for the twenty-first century parasitologist. Not so the pursuit of ancient parasites in fossil …

[HTML][HTML] Bioerosion and encrustation of the rocky shore dwellers along the Arabian Gulf, Northeast Saudi Arabia

AS El-Sorogy, H Alzahrani - Journal of King Saud University-Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The coastal area between Al-Khafji and Al-Jubail, Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia is
characterized by natural and artificial rocky shores, which inhabited by intensive dwellers …

Attachment strategies of organisms on hard substrates: a palaeontological view

RG Bromley, C Heinberg - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2006 - Elsevier
Attached organisms on hard substrates have been termed sessile, fixed, encrusting,
cemented. These terms reflect the palaeontological aspect of these communities, the …

Competition between encrusters on marine hard substrates and its fossil record

PD Taylor - Palaeontology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many animals and plants that colonize hard surfaces in the sea are sessile and either bore
into, or cement themselves permanently to the substrate surface. Because they retain their …

Insights into mineral composition and ultrastructure of Jurassic sabellid tubes (Annelida, Polychaeta): the evolution of sabellid calcification and its palaeoecological …

J Słowiński, K Banasik, O Vinn - Lethaia, 2023 - idunn.no
The mineral composition and tube ultrastructure of the Middle and Upper Jurassic
calcareous sabellid Glomerula gordialis from the Polish Basin have been assessed. In all …

Skeletal response of Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) to bioeroding sponge infestation visualised with micro-computed tomography

L Beuck, A Vertino, E Stepina, M Karolczak… - Facies, 2007 - Springer
The skeleton morphology of the azooxanthellate cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa can be
strongly influenced by invasive boring sponges that infest corallites in the still living part of …

Middle and Late Jurassic tube-dwelling polychaetesb from the Polish Basin: diversity, palaeoecology and comparisons with other assemblages

JA Słowiński, O Vinn, M Jäger, M Zatoń - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2022 - opus.us.edu.pl
This study describes diverse assemblages of serpulid and sabellid polychaetes from various
Middle and Upper Jurassic (upper Bajocian to lower Kimmeridgian) deposits of the Polish …

Surfaces with a long history: the Aptian top Shu'aiba Formation unconformity, Sultanate of Oman

N Rameil, A Immenhauser, AE Csoma… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Discontinuity surfaces in shallow‐marine carbonate successions may represent significant
time gaps in the geological record of ancient epeiric‐neritic seas. Understanding the hidden …