The New ZealandZoophycosrevisited: Morphology, ethology, and paleoecology
| العنوان: | The New ZealandZoophycosrevisited: Morphology, ethology, and paleoecology |
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| المؤلفون: | Allan A. Ekdale, D. W. Lewis |
| المصدر: | Ichnos. 1:183-194 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 1991. |
| سنة النشر: | 1991 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Paleontology, Spreite, Deposit feeder, Paleoecology, Zoophycos, Morphology (biology), Trace fossil, Burrow, Geology |
| الوصف: | Large, well‐preserved Zoophycos specimens are abundant and widespread in the Amuri Limestone Group (Upper Cretaceous‐lower Oligocene) on the South Island of New Zealand. Although several previous workers have offered detailed descriptions of Zoophycos in the group, their hypotheses concerning its mode of production have flaws. We propose a new ethologic explanation of Zoophycos that avoids pitfalls of previously published explanations. The Amuri Zoophycos represents a complex spreite of spreites (= spreiten), which consists of a spiralled set of numerous, overlapping, protrusive, Rhizocorallium‐like spreite tongues. These tongues are repetitive excavations produced by an infaunal deposit feeder probing progressively downward and outward in the sediment. The causative burrow is a U‐shaped tube that evidently was produced for circulating oxygenated water in the burrow while the burrower fed within the sediment. The complete Zoophycos structure is a composite burrow system of many overlapping U‐shaped burrow... |
| تدمد: | 1563-5236 1042-0940 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a707db685f4ba541c5ec382148ea752c https://doi.org/10.1080/10420949109386351 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........a707db685f4ba541c5ec382148ea752c |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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