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Nomenclature of a bivalve boring from the Upper Ordovician of the Midwestern United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

Mark A. Wilson  and
Timothy J. Palmer
Mark A. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 44691
Timothy J. Palmer
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College of Wales, Dyfed SY23 2DB, United Kingdom
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Although the burrows and trails in the Upper Ordovician rocks around Cincinnati, Ohio, have been fully documented and are well known (Osgood, 1970), comparatively little attention has been paid to the borers. Nevertheless, borers are very common in a variety of hard substrates in these rocks. These substrates include the skeletons of bryozoans, corals, and stromatoporoids (Palmer and Wilson, 1988), as well as cobbles and hardgrounds (Palmer, 1982; Wilson, 1985). By far the most common type of boring is the elongate tube Trypanites, which could have been made by a variety of filter-feeding worms. Trypanites is common on hard substrates throughout the lower Paleozoic (Palmer, 1982).

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Paleontological Notes
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , March 1988 , pp. 306 - 308
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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