Toarcian belemnite accumulations investigation with the support of CT data
Body size changes have been reported across crisis intervals. Belemnites – now considered extinct stemdecabrachians – have rarely been investigated for this purpose, and the few studies have resulted in ambiguous outcomes. Here we investigate two Toarcian belemnite accumulations in southern Germany from a morphometric point of view with the support of computed tomography data. The aim of this study is to test whether a difference in size can be observed between the rostra of the two studied samples, from individual lineage to community, and which proxy is more reliable.
„Rostrum size differences between Toarcian belemnite battlefields“, Fossil Record (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-21-171-2018)
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