Journal
PALAEOWORLD
Volume 24, Issue 1-2, Pages 55-60Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2014.11.004
Keywords
Hyolithid; Trace fossil; Taphonomy; Cambrian; China
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Funding
- Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program) [2013CB835002]
- National Sciences Foundation of China [41172005, 41330101]
- Research Centre of Paleontology of Guizhou [4003]
- Key Project of International Cooperation of Guizhou Science and Technology Department [2010-7001]
- Science, Technology and Education Talents from Governor of Guizhou Province [2011-37]
- Attracted Talent of Guizhou University [2010021]
- China Scholarship Council
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The Balang Formation (Cambrian Stage 4) of eastern Guizhou, China, yields slender, sinuous, and branching ichnofossils associated with shells of hyolithids. The trace-makers, of speculative identity, are inferred to have been feeding on decaying soft parts of hyolithids and on the microbial halos formed around decaying bodily remains. The comprehensive observation of hyolithid shells and their associated traces suggests that the hyolithid shells may have been moved some distance after scavenging began. This preservational pattern can address some issues relating to hyolith preservation of the Balang Formation. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS. All rights reserved.
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