Bioimmuring Late Cretaceous and Recent oysters: 'A view from within'

Being obligate cementers, oysters (Ostreoidea), both fossil and Recent, often yield valuable information on their substrates, whether biotic/abiotic, perishable or inert. By a process called bioimmuration, oyster shells may preserve lightly or non-calcified sessile organisms already present on the same substrates, and occasionally replicate external features of such substrates on their unattached right valves (xenomorphism). From Upper Cretaceous (Campanian- Maastrichtian) strata in northwest Europe, there are numerous records of oysters attached to calcitic and aragonitic substrates, such as... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Jagt, J.W.M.
Neumann, C.
Schulp, A.S.
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Schlagwörter: Campanian / Maastrichtian / Bivalvia / Echinoidea [Sea urchins] / Belgium / Bassenge / France / Bretagne
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26575995
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/225837.pdf