Post settlement behaviour of brachiopods on hard and soft substrates |
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| Authors: | J R Richardson A E Aldridge I D Endersby |
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| Institution: | 1. Invertebrate Palaeontology, Museum of Victoria, PO Box 666, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,;2. , PO Box 19576, Woolston, Christchurch, 8241, New Zealand;3. Invertebrate Palaeontology, Museum of Victoria, PO Box 666, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| Abstract: | AbstractThis paper describes the variation in shell and pedicle morphology of three species of brachiopods. Two are specialists that live on hard or soft surfaces, respectively, and the third is a generalist that can live on either. The interaction between behaviour and substrate explains (1) the morphology of the specialists, (2) variability in the lifestyle of the generalists, and (3) diversity in fossil brachiopods. |
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| Keywords: | articulate brachiopods behaviour pedicle post‐Pleistocene marine environments Terebratulida |
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