Deep-Sea Foraging Behavior: Its Bathymetric Potential in the Fossil Record
Abstract
Spiral and meander foraging traces in the deep sea are not distributed in proportion to assumed food availability. Data collected by means of deep-sea photography failed to reveal a bathymetric gradient in behavioral complexity or sensitivity. The foraging paradigm developed by numerous trace fossil studies does not adequately predict the modern environment.
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Volume 200 | Issue 4347
16 June 1978
16 June 1978
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