A swollen crinoid pluricolumnal from the Upper Ordovician of northern Kentucky, USA: the oldest record of an amorphous paleopathologic response in Crinoidea?
Swollen or otherwise malformed crinoid remains are relatively common in the Phanerozoic. However, published reports typically describe swellings associated with a discrete pit, boring, embedment structure or encruster, and, moreover, are overwhelmingly from Silurian or younger strata. Here, the rare...
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Estonian Academy Publishers
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.kirj.ee/public/Estonian_Journal_of_Earth_Sciences/2014/issue_4/earth-2014-4-317-322.pdf |