Journal article
Placoderm Assemblage from the Tetrapod-Bearing Locality of Strud (Belgium, Upper Famennian) Provides Evidence for a Fish Nursery
PloS one, v 11(8), pp e0161540-e0161540
2016
PMID: 27552196
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Abstract
The placoderm fauna of the upper Famennian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud, Belgium, includes the antiarch Grossilepis rikiki, the arthrodire groenlandaspidid Turrisaspis struden-sis and the phyllolepidid Phyllolepis undulata. Based on morphological and morphometric evidence, the placoderm specimens from Strud are predominantly recognised as immature specimens and this locality as representing a placoderm nursery. The Strud depositional environment corresponds to a channel in an alluvial plain, and the presence of a nursery in such environment could have provided nutrients and protection to the placoderm offspring. This represents one of the earliest pieces of evidence for this sort of habitat partitioning in vertebrate history, with adults living more distantly from the nursery and using the nursery only to spawn or give live birth.
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- Title
- Placoderm Assemblage from the Tetrapod-Bearing Locality of Strud (Belgium, Upper Famennian) Provides Evidence for a Fish Nursery
- Creators
- Sébastien Olive - Royal Belgian Institute of Natural SciencesGaël Clément - Centre de Recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements, UMR CR2P 7207, Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, CNRS, UPMC-Paris6, Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, FranceEdward B. Daeschler - Drexel UniversityVincent Dupret - Uppsala University
- Publication Details
- PloS one, v 11(8), pp e0161540-e0161540
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science (BEES)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000381768800049
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84984823901
- Other Identifier
- 991019168996804721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Paleontology