| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4615-0161-9_18 |
|---|---|
| Year | 2003 |
| Book | Predator—Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record. Topics in Geobiology, vol. 20 |
| Editor(s) | Kelley P. H., Kowalewski, M., Hansen T. A. |
| Publisher | Springer New York |
| Publisher place | New York |
| Belongs to | Kelley et al., 2003 (eds) |
| Pages | 401-432 |
| Type | article in book |
| Language | English |
| Id | 10422 |
Abstract
Fossil evidence of biotic interactions is of considerable importance in understanding broad-scale evolutionary patterns and has long attracted the interest of paleontologists (Clarke, 1921; Moodie, 1923; for exhaustive compendium see Boucot, 1990). Although it is notoriously difficult to document with fossils, predation is ubiquitous in modern communities and often of fundamental importance in controlling the abundance and diversity of organisms in marine environments (e.g., Paine, 1969).
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