Silurian Echiuroids: Possible Feeding Traces in the Thorold Sandstone Journal Articles

abstract

• Problematic trace fossils collected from the Middle Silurian Thorold Sandstone bear a striking resemblance to feeding traces made by the proboscises of modern echiuroid worms. Paleoecological approximations of depth and salinity may be possible depending on population densities. Echiuroids may have been a significant element of the Paleozoic benthos.

authors

• Risk, Michael John

status

• published 

publication date

• June 22, 1973

has subject area

• General Science & Technology (Science Metrix)

published in

• Science  Journal

keywords

• 31 Biological Sciences
• 3103 Ecology
• 37 Earth Sciences
• 3702 Climate Change Science
• 3705 Geology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1126/science.180.4092.1285

PubMed ID

• 17759125

start page

• 1285

end page

• 1287

volume

• 180

issue

• 4092