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Borings in Devonian and Mississippian blastoids (Echinodermata)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Tomasz K. Baumiller  and
D. Bradford Macurda Jr.
Tomasz K. Baumiller
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
D. Bradford Macurda Jr.
Affiliation:
The Energists, 10260 Westheimer Suite 300, Houston, Texas 77042
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Abstract

Previously undescribed holes on the calyx of single specimens of the blastoids Pentremites and Cordyloblastus are circular in plan view, penetrate the test at a right angle, and are found in the interambulacral region. The same features characterize holes on 23 specimens of the Mississippian blastoid Orophocrinus. The holes are interpreted as biogenic in origin; examples of multiple complete holes on individual specimens and of incomplete holes on some blastoids indicate that the holes represent parasitism rather than predation. The similarity of these holes to those previously described in nucleocrinids and crinoids suggests that they were produced by platyceratid gastropods or closely related taxa.

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Research Article
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 69 , Issue 6 , November 1995 , pp. 1084 - 1089
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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