Tracking Killer Trilobites

[Oxytropidoceras]

500 million-year-old fossils show how extinct

organisms attacked their prey, University of Missouri

http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2016/0216-500-million-year-old-fossils-show-how-extinct-organisms-attacked-their-prey/

The Early Trilobite Gets the Worm by Jordan Yount,

University of Missouri, January 2016

https://coas.missouri.edu/news/early-trilobite-gets-worm

Selly, T., J. W. Huntley, K. L. Shelton,and J. D.

Schiffbauer, 2016, Ichnofossil record of selective

predation by Cambrian trilobites. Palaeogeography,

Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. vol. 444, pp. 28–38.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018215007038

A related paper is:

Brandt, D.S., D. L. Meyer, and P. B. Lask, 1995, Isotelus

(Trilobita) "Hunting Burrow" from Upper Ordovician

Strata, Ohio. Journal of Paleontology. vol. 69,n. 6.,

pp. 1079-1083. https://goo.gl/19ZFQK and

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1306413?&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Yours,

Paul H.

[Raggedy Man]

Remarkable find. Thanks for sharing!

Best regards,

Paul

[piranha]

Paul, I already posted this research back in December: LINK

Your link goes to a paywall. Here is a link to the paper: LINK

[Oxytropidoceras]

Thanks for the link to the reprint. It is always welcome to be made aware of one.

Speaking about paywalls, there is:

Expensive Journals Drive Academics To Break Copyright Law

Weekend Edition, National public Radio, February 20, 2016

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/20/467468361/expensive-journals-drive-academics-to-break-copyright-law

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited February 21, 2016 by Oxytropidoceras