Adiël A. Klompmaker

TL;DR: A review of the types of paleontological data used to infer predation in the marine fossil record, discuss strengths and limitations of the evidence used to recognize and evaluate predatory activity, assess the influence of environmental gradients on predation patterns, and review fossil evidence for predator behavior and prey defense as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: It is shown that drill-hole size is a robust predictor of body size among modern drilling predators and that drill -hole size rose substantially from the Ordovician to the Quaternary period, whereas the size of drilled prey remained stable, which indicates a directional increase in predator-prey size ratios.

TL;DR: Based on a compilation of ~1300 Mesozoic decapod species, this work document a long-term shift in diversity of dominant groups, marked by the first appearance and increasing presence of true crabs and, to a lesser extent, squat lobsters.

TL;DR: Naticids appeared to be the predominant drill-hole-producing predator based on drill- hole morphology and the gastropod composition, and Muricid predators were absent, probably because most bivalve prey is infaunal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a mid-Cretaceous (upper Lower Cretaceous, upper Albian) reef setting at Koskobilo, northern Spain, on the basis of 874 specimens of anomurans and brachyurans.