the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic(IP DKRVO 2019/2.III.a,National Museum,00023272);MKVs research was supported by the Center for Geosphere Dynamics(UNCE/SCI/006);by the RVO 67985831 of the Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.JS and AT were funded by the Slovak Scientific Grant Agency(VEGA 2/0169/19);by the Slovak Agency for Research and Development(APVV 17-0555).
Fossil cephalopods are frequently encrusted by epibionts;however,determining whether encrustation occurred prior to or post-mortem to the host,and whether the final environment of deposition corresponds to the habitat...
Epibionts are floristic and faunistic benthonic organisms living attached to the skin of another animal; this phenomenon is well known as epibiosis and has been documented for all species of marine turtles. The intera...