2015/03/16 by Małgorzata Bieńkowska-Wasiluk, Alfred Uchman, Agata Jurkowska +2 · 21 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biology #Computer science #Cretaceous #Diversity (politics) #Ecology #Fish biology, ecology, and behavior #Fossil Record #Geology #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Paleontology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Philosophy #TRACE (psycholinguistics) #Taphonomy #Trace fossil #Window (computing) #World Wide Web
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s12542-015-0260-x
published in Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89(4), 795-806 (Springer Nature)
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The trace fossil Lepidenteron lewesiensis (Mantell 1822 ) provides an exceptional taphonomic window to diversity of fishes as shown for the Upper Cretaceous of Poland, in the Middle Turonian–Lower Maastrichtian deposits of the Opole Trough, Miechów Trough, Mazury-Podlasie Homocline, and SE part of the Border Synclinorium. Lepidenteron lewesiensis is an unbranched burrow lined with small fish scales and bones, without a constructed wall. It contains scales, vertebrae, and bones of the head belonging to ten taxa of teleostean fishes: two undetermined teleosteans, six undetermined Clupeocephala, one Dercetidae, and one undetermined euteleostean. The preservation of fish remains suggests that fishes were pulled down into the burrow by an animal, probably by eunicid polychaetes.