The fossil record is the primary source of data used to study predator-prey interactions in
deep time and to evaluate key questions regarding the evolutionary and ecological …

The evolutionary history of drilling predation, despite a long and rich fossil record
(Precambrian–Holocene), contains a 120 my gap (Late Triassic–Early Cretaceous). Drilled …

The fossil record yields abundant data on the interaction between drilling predators and their
shelled prey. Predatory drill holes may date to the late Precambrian (Bengtson and Zhao …

In the last 40 years, there has been a dramatic increase in our knowledge about predator–
prey interactions in the fossil record. Studies have become more focussed to testing specific …

Previous work has suggested that escalation may have characterized the history of the
naticid gastropod predator-prey system, based on apparent increases in drilling frequencies …

Extant shell-drilling naticid gastropods are highly selective predators, choosing prey in
accord with a model based on relative cost: benefit ratios (Kitchell et al., 1981). However …

Boreholes in Cambrian shells are rarely reported but are a potentially significant source of
information on levels of predation in early metazoan communities. This paper documents …

Exceptionally neomorphosed bivalves from a range of Jurassic sediments from England and
North Ireland have been discovered to bear neat, circular, straight-sided boreholes over a …

Drill holes, used widely by biologists and palaeontologists to study predator–prey
interactions, provide rich quantifiable data on drilling carnivores and their victims. A …

Three abundant Devonian (Frasnian) brachiopod species from the Lime Creek Fm. of Iowa,
USA (Douvillina arcuata, Devonoproductus walcotti and Pseudoatrypa devoniana), contain …