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Silurian Echiuroids: Possible Feeding Traces in the Thorold Sandstone

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 wormns. 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 MJ

Journal

Science, Vol. 180, No. 4092, pp. 1285–1287

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Publication Date

June 22, 1973

DOI

10.1126/science.180.4092.1285

ISSN

0036-8075