Open AccessBioerosive processes affecting a population of brachiopods (Upper Pliocene, Apulia)
Author(s) -
Emma Taddei Ruggiero
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
bulletin of the geological society of denmark
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.674
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2245-7070
pISSN - 0011-6297
DOI - 10.37570/bgsd-1998-45-23
Subject(s) - bioerosion , geology , breakage , paleontology , population , shell (structure) , oceanography , philosophy , engineering , demography , linguistics , civil engineering , coral , sociology
The most important forms of bioerosion affecting the brachiopod Terebratula calabra in life may be classified as surface etchings, borings, and shell breakage. lchnogenera observed are Oichnus, Podichnus, Entobia, Centrichnus and Renichnus.