Distraction sinking and fossilized coleoid predatory behaviour from the German Early Jurassic

Abstract Exceptional fossil preservation is required to conserve soft-bodied fossils and even more so to conserve their behaviour. Here, we describe a fossil of a co-occurrence of representatives of two different octobrachian coleoid species. The fossils are from the Toarcian Posidonienschiefer of O...

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Main Authors: Christian Klug, Günter Schweigert, Dirk Fuchs, Kenneth De Baets
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-03-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-021-00218-y