Signs of Boring Predation on Middle Devonian Hyolithids From the Michigan Basin

Baumiller, Tomasz K.; Marinovic, John C.; Tuura, Megan E.; Damstra, Emily S.; Miller, Daniel J.

doi:10.2110/palo.2010.p10-044r

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“…Several groups of durophagous predators such as arthropods, cephalopods, and fi shes underwent an evolutionary burst that extensively intensifi ed predation pressure in marine ecosystems (Brett, 2003;Nagel-Myers et al, 2009;Signor and Brett, 1984). Correspondingly, coeval evidence of increasing predation has been recognized in a number of prey groups, mainly crinoids (Baumiller and Gahn, 2004), bivalves (Nagel-Myers et al, 2009), hyolithids (Baumiller et al, 2010), and brachiopods (Kowalewski et al, 2005;Leighton, 2001). All these prey groups had limited motility or sessile life habits, and provide a good record of both direct predator-prey interactions and morphological defenses.…”

Section: Antipredatory Strategies In the Middle Paleozoic Macroevolutmentioning

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Infaunal molting in Trilobita and escalatory responses against predation

Rustán

Balseiro

Waisfeld

et al. 2011

Geology

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Section: Antipredatory Strategies In the Middle Paleozoic Macroevolutmentioning

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Infaunal molting in Trilobita and escalatory responses against predation

Rustán

Balseiro

Waisfeld

et al. 2011

Geology

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“…In addition to bivalve and gastropod mollusks, which are represented abundantly in the literature, many other clades served as prey. Rare prey occurrences in the marine fossil record are represented by taxa such as Mollusca Gastropoda e.g., Adegoke and Tevesz, 1974;Alexander and Dietl, 2003;Allmon et al, 1990;Bałuk and Radwański, 1996;Chattopadhyay et al, 2016;Chattopadhyay and Baumiller, 2010;Fischer, 1966;Hagadorn and Boyajian, 1997;Hoffman et al, 1974;Hoffman and Martinell, 1984;Kohn and Arua, 1999;Kojumdjieva, 1974;Kowalewski, 1990;Mallick et al, 2014;Maxwell, 1988;Taylor, 1970;Taylor et al, 1983;Vermeij and Dudley, 1982;Walker, 2001Mollusca Helcionelloida Skovsted, 2004Skovsted et al, 2007 Mollusca Hyolitha e.g., Baumiller et al, 2010b;Briggs et al, 1994;Conway Morris, 1979;Kimmig and Pratt, 2018;Malinky and Skovsted, 2004 Mollusca Polyplacophora Rojas et al, 2014 Mollusca Scaphopoda e.g., Klompmaker, 2011;Li et al, 2011;Mallick et al, 2017;Robba and Ostinelli, 1975;Yochelson et al, 1983Mollusca Tergomya Ebbestad et al, 2009Porifera Blake and Elliott, 2003Elliott, 2008Cloudinidae Becker-Kerber ...…”

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Predation in the marine fossil record: Studies, data, recognition, environmental factors, and behavior

Klompmaker

Kelley

Chattopadhyay

et al. 2019

Earth-Science Reviews

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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 importance of predation. Here, we review the types of paleontological data used to infer predation in the marine fossil record, discuss strengths and limitations of paleontological lines of evidence used to recognize and evaluate predatory activity, assess the influence of environmental gradients on predation patterns, and review fossil evidence for predator behavior and prey defense. We assembled a predation database from the literature that documents a steady increase in the number of papers on predation since the 1960s. These studies have become increasingly quantitative and have expanded in focus from reporting cases of predation documented by fossils to using the fossil record of predation to test ecological and evolutionary hypotheses. The data on the fossil record of predation amassed so far in the literature primarily come from trace fossils, mostly drill holes and, to a lesser extent, repair scars, derived predominantly from the Cenozoic of Europe and North America. Mollusks are the clade most often studied as prey and inferred predators. We discuss how to distinguish biotic from abiotic damage and predatory from parasitic traces, and how to recognize failed predation. Our data show that identifying the predator is easiest when predator and prey are preserved in the act of predation or when predators were fossilized with their gut contents preserved. However, determining the culprits responsible for bite traces, drill holes, and other types of predation traces can be more problematic.Taphonomic and other factors can distort patterns of predation, but their potential effects can be minimized by careful study design. With the correct identification and quantification of fossilized traces of predation, ecological trends in predator-prey interactions may be discerned along environmental gradients in water depth, habitat, and oxygen and nutrient availability.However, so far, these trends have not been explored adequately for the fossil record. We also

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“…(4) Gastropods: Rollins et al (1971), Linsley (1977), Houbrick (1979), Hickman (1985), and Morris et al (1991). (5) Hyolithids: Fisher (1962), Malinky et al (1987), and Baumiller et al (2010). (6) Trace fossils: Seilacher (1964), Frey (1975), Ekdale et al (1984), Bromley (1991), and Brett et al (2007).…”

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Quantitative paleoecology of marine faunas in the lower Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian, central New York): Significance for probing models of long-term community stability

Newton¹,

Newman

Brower

2020

The Appalachian Geology of John M. Dennison: Rocks, People, and a Few Good Restaurants Along the Way

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Beautifully fossiliferous strata in the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian, central New York) constitute a rich "ecological archive" sufficient to probe and test foundational concepts in paleontology. The evident community stability of Hamilton faunas over 4-6 m.y.-including two proposed mechanisms for coordinated stasis-has ignited controversy. Resolving community structure and both taxonomic and ecological temporal persistence within the Hamilton Group thus becomes critical to testing whether these Hamilton communities are stable and whether they are ecologically "locked." Toward this end, we conducted multivariate analyses (cluster and correspondence analysis) of marine faunas in 81 large samples (~300 specimens each) in shallowing-upward sequences of the Cardiff and Pecksport Members (Marcellus Subgroup, Oatka Creek Formation) of the Hamilton Group. Eight statistically and ecologically distinctive benthic communities characterize the vertical gradient, from depauperate, deeper-water dark shales below to species-rich shelf siltstones above. These communities correlate strongly with grain size, bioturbation intensity, bedding thickness, density of fossils, and faunal and ecological diversity. Species richness varies inversely with weight percent organic matter. We characterized taxonomic distributions using multivariate statistics; these statistical analyses were based on percentages of 50 taxa. In order of decreasing depth, the communities are: Cephalopod-Pterochaenia, Pterochaenia-Eumetabolotoechia, Eumetabolotoechia, Emanuella, Eumetabolotoechia-Ambocoelia, Arcuaminetes-Eumetabolotoechia, Arcuaminetes-Ambocoelia, and Mucrospirifer-Ambocoelia. The Cephalopod-Pterochaenia community represents a mixed benthicpelagic fauna associated with the deepest and finest-grained facies. The Pterochaenia-Eumetabolotoechia, Eumetabolotoechia, and Emanuella communities have low to

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Signs of Boring Predation on Middle Devonian Hyolithids From the Michigan Basin

Cited by 7 publications

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Infaunal molting in Trilobita and escalatory responses against predation

Infaunal molting in Trilobita and escalatory responses against predation

Predation in the marine fossil record: Studies, data, recognition, environmental factors, and behavior

Quantitative paleoecology of marine faunas in the lower Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian, central New York): Significance for probing models of long-term community stability

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