- Tytuł:
- Tubular shell infestations in some Mississippian spirilophous brachiopods
- Autorzy:
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Balinski, A.
Sun, Y. - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20057.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2010
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
- Tematy:
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paleontology
tubular shell
shell
infestation
Mississippian brachiopod
spirilophous brachiopod
brachiopod
Brachiopoda
Spiriferida
Spiriferinida
biotic interaction
endosymbiont
Muhua Formation
China - Opis:
- Evidence of brachiopod shell infestation by tube dwelling parasitic–commensal organisms is very rare in the fossil record. The oldest record of this kind of biotic interaction is known as Eodiorygma acrotretophilia from the Early Cambrian phosphatic acrotretoid Linnarsonia. The youngest evidence of parasitic infestation was documented in the Early Cretaceous rhynchonellide Peregrinella multicarinata. Two other records of vermiform tubes inside brachiopod shells come from the Devonian. These are Diorygma atrypophilia, infesting Givetian atrypide shells, and Burrinjuckia spiriferidophilia, found in some Emsian spiriferides. Here we describe the fifth record of this kind of infestation for which a name Haplorygma dorsalis ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov. is proposed. The tubular infestation structure was revealed in two silicified dorsal valves of spirolophous brachiopods found in the Mississippian Muhua Formation of the Southern China. The affinity of the tube−dwelling organism is rather enigmatic, but its annelid relationship and kleptoparasitic nature seems highly probable. In addition, the phoronid affinity of Diorygma is here questioned.
- Źródło:
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2010, 55, 4
0567-7920 - Pojawia się w:
- Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki