Nature Red Tooth and Claw: Studies of Extinct and Extant Arthropod Predator-Prey Systems

Author(s)
Bicknell, Russell Dean Christopher
Wroe, Stephen
Paterson, John R
Publication Date
2019-07-08
Abstract
Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell was awarded the Chancellor's Doctoral Research Medal on the 8th July, 2019. Datasets associated with the thesis can be accessed on Research UNE: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28071
Abstract
Records of Cambrian predation have long been recognised as unequivocal evidence for the earliest predator-prey systems. However, Cambrian predation has been somewhat poorly documented in a numerical and comparative context - a problem rectified in this thesis. The first quantitative, model-based evidence illustrating how effective Cambrian predators were at shell crushing is presented. The modern day horseshoe crab is used to understand how Cambrian prey responded to attacks. Finally, the previously purported right-side injury bias observed on Cambrian trilobites is redressed using single fossil deposits and single species - this approach reveals no right-side bias.
Link
https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28070
Language
en
Publisher
University of New England
Title
Nature Red Tooth and Claw: Studies of Extinct and Extant Arthropod Predator-Prey Systems
Type of document
Thesis Doctoral
Entity Type
Publication

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