Postmortem transport in fossil and modern shelled cephalopods
The chambered shells of cephalopod mollusks, such as modern Nautilus and fossil ammonoids, have the potential to float after death, which could result in significant postmortem transport of shells away from living habitats. Such transport would call into question these clades’ documented biogeograph...
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-11-01
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/5909.pdf |