Predatorial Borings in Late Precambrian Mineralized Exoskeletons
@article{Bengtson1992PredatorialBI, title={Predatorial Borings in Late Precambrian Mineralized Exoskeletons}, author={S. Bengtson and Y. Zhao}, journal={Science}, year={1992}, volume={257}, pages={367 - 369} }
The late Precambrian tube-forming Cloudina, the earliest known animal to produce a mineralized exoskeleton, shows evidence of having been attacked by shell-boring organisms. Of more than 500 tubes from Shaanxi Province, China, 2.7% have rounded holes 40 to 400 micrometers in diameter. The relation between the size of the holes and the width of the bored tubes suggests that the attacking organism was a predator, selecting its prey for size. If true, this would be the oldest case of predation in… Expand
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