Boring Late Cambrian organisms |
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Authors: | RICHARD H MILLER FREDERICK A SUNDBERG |
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Institution: | Allison Center, Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, U.S.A.;10th July, 1983. |
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Abstract: | Specimens of inarticulate brachiopods (family Acrotrctidae) with boreholes were found in Upper Cambrian carbonates in the southern Great Basin of the United States. Some morphologic features and preferred orientation of the borings are similar to those made by predators and previously reported in the fossil and Holocene record. Such predatory activity on brachiopods is previously unknown in Cambrian rocks. Taxa associated with these specimens are not known to have been predators and identity of the predatory organism is unknown. Cambrian brachiopods, predation, paleoecology. |
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