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PALAEONTOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT
Volume 85, Issue 4, Pages 465-470Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12542-011-0102-4
Keywords
Agraulos; Trilobita; Ichnofossil; Fodichnial association; Mortichnia; Cambrian; Barrandian area
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- Material flow mechanisms in the upper spheres of the Earth [MSM 0021620855]
- Czech Science Foundation (Feeding strategies in Cambrian to Middle Ordovician of the Barrandian Region) [205/09/1521]
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A trace fossil associated with its assumed in situ maker, a holaspid specimen of the trilobite Agraulos ceticephalus (Barrande in Notice pr,liminaire sur le Systme Silurien et les trilobites de Bohme, Leipzig, 1846), is reported from the middle Cambrian Buchava Formation (Drumian Stage) of the Skryje-TA1/2A (TM) ovice Basin, Czech Republic. The ichnofossil is preserved on the surface of a mudstone, behind the posterior part of the intact trilobite exoskeleton; this natural association is interpreted as mortichnia. Possible mode of life and feeding strategy of the trilobite genus Agraulos are discussed. For the association of a fodichnion with its producer preserved in situ (atop, in, or at the end of its trace fossil), the designation fodichnial association is proposed.
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