Predation on Recent Terebrid Gastropods from the Indian Subcontinent and a Spatiotemporal Reappraisal Based on a Revised Global Database

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Predation on Recent Terebrid Gastropods from the Indian Subcontinent and a Spatiotemporal Reappraisal Based on a Revised Global Database

Debattam Sarkar¹, Subhendu Bardhan², Subhronil Mondal³, Anirban Das, Arijit Pahari², Dipankar Buragohain², Sandip Saha² - Show less +3 more•Institutions (3)

Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad¹, Jadavpur University², University of Calcutta³

01 Dec 2016-Malacologia (Institute of Malacology)-Vol. 59, Iss: 2, pp 271-302

TL;DR: Body size appears to have evolved as anti-predatory traits in Recent terebrids in terebrid gastropods, and temporally, DF showed fluctuating pattern, with modern values showing declining trend.

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Abstract: Predator-prey interaction, especially drilling and shell-breaking predation pressure, caused significant evolutionary changes within these predator-prey communities. Although temporal trends are well understood in prey assemblages, studies to trace such changes within taxonspecific clades up to Recent times have been rare. Here, we studied both the drilling and shell-breaking predation on Recent terebrid gastropods from the Indian subcontinent and compared the results with a newly updated, global database. The major part of our data came from a large collection reposited in the archive of the Zoological Survey of India in Kolkata for more than 100 years. Detailed analyses of this study based on a newly raised, global database revealed the following findings: (1) Drilling frequency (DF) of Indian terebrids was low, but consistent with the DF of only available but limited data provided by Vermeij et al. (1980). In comparison, peeling frequency (PF) in Indian terebrids appeared to be highest in the ...

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Subaerial naticid gastropod drilling predation by Natica tigrina on the intertidal molluscan community of Chandipur, Eastern Coast of India

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Arijit Pahari¹, Subhronil Mondal², Subhendu Bardhan¹, Debattam Sarkar³, Sandip Saha¹, Dipankar Buragohain¹ - Show less +2 more•Institutions (3)

Jadavpur University¹, University of Calcutta², Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad³

01 Jun 2016-Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

TL;DR: Detailed quantitative analyses of the present study revealed that N. tigrina attacks opportunistically on all infaunal and epifaunal intertidal bivalve and gastropod prey taxa, indicating that the predator was highly efficient.

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Naticid confamilial drilling predation through time

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Subhronil Mondal¹, Pritha Goswami², Subhendu Bardhan³•Institutions (3)

University of Calcutta¹, Durgapur Government College², Jadavpur University³

01 May 2017-PALAIOS

TL;DR: In this paper, data compiled from previously published sources, supplemented by unpublished museum collections, document different aspects of naticid confamilial predation in a temporal-latitudinal context.

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Abstract: Gastropod drilling predation in the fossil record is prevalent and has been documented by many workers; however, vivid documentation of confamilial naticid predation is poor. Here, data compiled from previously published sources, supplemented by unpublished museum collections, document different aspects of naticid confamilial predation (NCP) in a temporal-latitudinal context. Confamilial drilling frequency (DF) showed a Cretaceous low, a small rise to a stable plateau in the Eocene, followed by a peak in the Oligocene, and finally a drop to a stable level from the Miocene to the Holocene. The stepwise rise in DF is comparable with the overall history of drilling predation. However, the temporal increase in DF was visible only in the mid-latitudes, while in other latitudes, no temporal trend was observed. The frequency of failed attack has always been very low. In comparison, a decrease in prey effectiveness (PE) was observed in the Neogene relative to the Cretaceous and Paleocene–Eocene intervals. In case of site selectivity, either apertural or abapertural sites were targeted until the Oligocene, and subsequently became more random. Some of these trends may be biased based on insufficient site selectivity data as well as uneven sampling from different latitudes representing different time intervals. More data on quantification of predation intensities along with the behavioral aspects of NCP are required to properly document other aspects of this interaction.

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...However, the influence of antipredatory adaptations like mobility, size refuge, and external shell ornamentation (Sarkar et al., 2016) on confamilial predation is not clear....
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Drilling gastropod predation on the lower Miocene gastropod assemblages from Kutch, western India: spatiotemporal implications

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Pritha Goswami¹, Shiladri S. Das², Subhendu Bardhan², Shubhabrata Paul³•Institutions (3)

Durgapur Government College¹, Indian Statistical Institute², Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur³

02 Sep 2021-Historical Biology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report that the drilling intensity shows wide spatial variation throughout the Miocene and find that gastropod drilling predation has been reported in shells of Cretaceous age onwards.

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Abstract: Unambiguous gastropod drilling predation has been reported in shells of Cretaceous age onwards. Global data suggest that the drilling intensity shows wide spatial variation throughout the Miocene. ...

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Paleoecology of naticid–molluscan prey interaction during the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) in Kutch, India: evolutionary implications

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Subhendu Bardhan¹, Sandip Saha¹, Shiladri S. Das¹, Ranita Saha²•Institutions (2)

Indian Statistical Institute¹, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur²

01 Sep 2021-Journal of Paleontology

TL;DR: It is suggested that both turritellines and naticid evolved during the Jurassic, and the prey–predator interaction between them was established shortly thereafter, and among bivalves, corbulids also became important prey of naticids in the same spatiotemporal framework.

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Abstract: We document and quantify one of the oldest predator–prey interactions between naticid gastropods and molluscan prey, on the basis of drill holes in shells, from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) beds of Kutch, western India. Previously, many workers recorded naticid-like drill holes on prey taxa from the Triassic and the Jurassic, but in the absence of associated naticid body fossils, they remained equivocal. The present gastropod community is dominated by turritellines (98% of the sample) that form the turritelline-dominated assemblage, and the naticid drilling predation is restricted almost entirely to turritellines among gastropods. Confamilial naticid predation takes place occasionally. Within the bivalve community, corbulids and nuculids are most abundant and are drilled more often than other taxa. These observations indicate that prey selection was opportunistic and based solely on availability. Drilling intensities at both assemblage and lower taxon levels are low. Behavioral stereotypy of naticid predation in some cases is moderately high. Turritellines are often the preferred prey of naticid gastropods since the late Early Cretaceous. These two groups form a recurrent association reflecting prey–predator interaction. Here we suggest that both turritellines and naticids evolved during the Jurassic, and the prey–predator interaction between them was established shortly thereafter. Among bivalves, corbulids also became important prey of naticids in the same spatiotemporal framework. Corbulids are older than naticids and first appeared during the Middle Jurassic. After their first encounter with naticids, corbulids evolved conchiolin layers within the valves to resist predation.

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...…on a variety of taxa (Dudley and Vermeij, 1978; Boucher, 1986; Vermeij, 1987; Mondal et al., 2010; Paul et al., 2013; Chattopadhyay et al., 2014; Das et al., 2014; Klompmaker et al., 2015; Pahari et al., 2016; Saha et al., 2016; Sarkar et al., 2016; Mondal et al., 2019a, b; among others)....
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...…characters such as shell ornamentation, shell thickness, and shell slenderness of gastropods, which resulted from evolutionary adaptation, are arguably the resistant characters against predation during the Cenozoic (Vermeij et al., 1980; Signor, 1985; Paul et al., 2013; Sarkar et al., 2016)....
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...Previous workers, including Paul et al. (2013) and Sarkar et al. (2016), subdivided turritellines into two size classes with a cut-off at 4 cm shell height....
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...…(1985) also argued that the evolution of slender shells helps keep a low profile of prey within sediment, thus evading detection by the predator, especially by the epifaunal calappid crabs and infaunal naticid drillers (see also Sarkar et al., 2016 for similar observations on terebrid gastropods)....
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...…1993; Harper, 1994; Kardon, 1998; Dietl and Kelley, 2002, 2006; Kowalewski, 2002; Mondal et al., 2010, 2017, 2019a, b; Bardhan et al., 2012, 2014; Das et al., 2014; Mallick et al., 2014; Pahari et al., 2016; Sarkar et al., 2016; Anderson et al., 2017; Klompmaker et al., 2017, 2019; among others)....
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Substrate-controlled naticid gastropod drilling predation on recent barnacles from Chandipur, India and its Palaeontological implications

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Subhronil Mondal¹, Akash Maitra², Kanishka Bose³, Pritha Goswami⁴, Subhendu Bardhan³, Sumanta Mallick - Show less +2 more•Institutions (4)

University of Calcutta¹, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela², Indian Statistical Institute³, Durgapur Government College⁴

03 Jul 2021-Historical Biology

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported drilling predation on acorn barnacles by gastropods from Chandipur, eastern India, and found that the aspects of predation have been largely limited to molluscs.

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Abstract: The study of drilling predation has been largely limited to molluscs. Herein, we report drilling predation on Recent acorn barnacles by gastropods from Chandipur, eastern India. The aspects of pred...

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...…the Phanerozoic (for comparison, see Figure 2 of Klompmaker et al. 2015); this high intensity of predationmatches with naticid gastropod predation intensities on different molluscan prey from Chandipur (Mondal et al. 2010; Paul et al. 2013; Das et al. 2014; Sarkar et al. 2016; Pahari et al. 2016)....
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...Since external ornaments can deter predation in molluscs (Vermeij 1987; Kelley and Hansen 1996; but see Paul et al. 2013; Sarkar et al. 2016), shells are classified into three groups based on their variable external ornaments – fine axial (FA), coarse axial (CA), and fine axial reticulate (FAR,…...
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Conceptos en ichnotaxonomía ilustrados por perforaciones pequeñas y redondas sobre conchas = Concepts in ichnotaxonomy illustrated by small round holes in shells

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R. G. Bromley

01 Jan 1981

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"Predation on Recent Terebrid Gastro..." refers background in this paper

...Gastropod drillholes (both complete and incomplete), characterized by “truncated spherical paraboloids” (Oichnus paraboloides; Bromley, 1981), were generally attributed to naticid gastropod predation (Carriker & Yochelson, 1968; Bromley, 1981; but see Dietl et al., 2004)....
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Prey selection naticid gastropods; experimental tests and application to the fossil record

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Jennifer A. Kitchell, Christofer H. Boggs, James F. Kitchell, James A. Rice

01 Oct 1981-Paleobiology

TL;DR: Application of the model to several Miocene and Pliocene assemblages studied by Thomas (1976) corroborates the feasibility and utility of this approach in examining the evolutionary record of naticid predation, which extends from the Late Mesozoic.

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Abstract: Because predation by drilling gastropods is uniquely preservable in the fossil record, it represents important evidence for the study of coevolution. Previous studies of drilling gastropod predation have been largely descriptive and sometimes contradictory. We formulate and test a model of prey selection by naticid drilling gastropods. The model adequately predicts both prey species selection and prey size selection. Prey preferences parallel prey profitabilities, determined by calculating prey species-specific and predator size-specific cost-benefit functions. The model also specifically suggests the evolution of potential refugia from predation and the evolution of potential predatory attributes. Application of the model to several Miocene and Pliocene assemblages studied by Thomas (1976) corroborates the feasibility and utility of this approach in examining the evolutionary record of naticid predation, which extends from the Late Mesozoic. Apparent evolutionary stasis and convergent morphological trends among prey species may be consistent with continuous selection pressures against predation.

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...Because drilling in thick shell involves more time and energy, it might not be profitable to drill them, thus supporting the cost-benefit model (Kitchell et al., 1981; Mondal et al., 2010a)....
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...To understand whether the recent predatory naticids were size selective, we plotted outer borehole diameter (OBD), which served as proxy for the predator size against prey shell height (Kitchell et al., 1981; Anderson et al., 1991)....
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The fossil record of predation: an overview of analytical methods

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Michał Kowalewski

01 Nov 2002

TL;DR: A survey of sampling protocols (data collecting strategy, sieve size, and sample size) and analytical approaches (predation intensity metrics, strategies for evaluating behavioral selectivity of predators, and taphonomic tests) reveals that various approaches can be fruitful depending on logistic circumstances and scientific goals of paleoecological projects as mentioned in this paper.

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Abstract: Paleontological research on predation has been expanding rapidly in scope, methods, and goals. The growing assortment of research strategies and goals has led to increasing differences in sampling strategies, types of data collected, definition of variables, and even reporting style. This methodological overview serves as a starting point for erecting some general methodological guidelines for studying the fossil record of predation. I focus here on trace fossils left by predators in the skeleton of their prey, arguably one of the most powerful sources of direct data on predator-prey interactions available in the fossil record. A critical survey of sampling protocols (data collecting strategy, sieve size, and sample size) and analytical approaches (predation intensity metrics, strategies for evaluating behavioral selectivity of predators, and taphonomic tests) reveals that various approaches can be fruitful depending on logistic circumstances and scientific goals of paleoecological projects. Despite numerous caveats and uncertainties, trace fossils left by predators on skeletons of their prey remain one of the most promising directions of research in paleoecology and evolutionary paleobiology.

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...For all these reasons, it can be argued that the present samples are equivalent to unbiased collections such as bulk samples (cf. Kowalewski, 2002)....
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...Drilling and shell-breaking predation, which can be identified by characteristic traces made by the different groups of predators (Vermeij, 1987; Kowalewski, 2002; Harper & Kelly, 2012), has been extensively studied to test several aspects of predator-prey evolutionary dynamics in modern (Vermeij…...
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Concepts in ichnotaxonomy illustrated by small round holes in shells

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Richard G. Bromley

11 Jan 1981

TL;DR: The nombre de la pista fosil (ichnotaxon) is basado en la morfologia de la estructura, mientras el taxon biologico represents the posicion filogenetica que se interpreta del organismo causante as discussed by the authors.

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Abstract: La clasificacion de las pistas fosiles requiere un doble sistema de nomenclatura. El nombre de la pista fosil (ichnotaxon) esta basado en la morfologia de la estructura, mientras que el taxon biologico representa la posicion filogenetica que se interpreta del organismo causante. Los dos sistemas de nomenclatura no se pueden intercambiar, y ambos son necesarios para la completa clasificacion de la pista. A muchas de estas pistas no les ha sido aun atribuido unichnotaxon descriptivo, pero ya que las pistas fosiles re quieren nombres si han de ser tratadas sistematicamente, se ofrece comunmente en tales casos un biotaxon interpretativo en lugar del ichnotaxon que no se ha descritotodavia Este procedimiento tiende a desviar la atencion de la verdadera naturaleza de la pista fosil e implica una falsa exactitud en la determinacion filogenetica, lo cual conduce a conclusiones paleobiologicas poco seguras. Estos puntos quedan bien ilustrados por el ejemplo de unas perforaciones pequeiias y redondas sobre conchas. Son pistas fosiles abundantes y, no teniendo ichnotaxon, tienden a ser relacionadas con la accion perforante de los gasteropedos-naticidos y muricidos-sobre conchas. Sin embargo, varios grupos mas de gasteropodos producen perforaciones redondas, al igual que los cefalopodos octopodos, turbelarios, nematodos y braquiopodos articulados, pero su accion es poco conocida. Antes de embarcarse en tales especulaciones, como son los organismos causantes, es necesario un ichnotaxon para atraer la atencion hacia estas pistas fosiles y aumentarel rigorde su tratamiento. Solo cuando su morfologia y distribucion sean mejor conocidas estaremos en una posicion mejor para discutir sus atribuciones filogeneticas.

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Strong coupling of predation intensity and diversity in the Phanerozoic fossil record

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John Warren Huntley¹, Michał Kowalewski•Institutions (1)

Virginia Tech¹

18 Sep 2007-Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

TL;DR: A species-level database of predation intensity, as measured by the frequency of common predation traces, suggests that macroevolutionary and macroecological patterns share common causative mechanisms that may reflect either historical processes or sampling artifacts.

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Abstract: The importance of ecological interactions in driving the evolution of animals has been the focus of intense debate among paleontologists, evolutionary biologists, and macroecologists. To test whether the intensity of such interactions covaries with the secular evolutionary trend in global biodiversity, we compiled a species-level database of predation intensity, as measured by the frequency of common predation traces (drillings and repair scars ranging in age from Ediacaran to Holocene). The results indicate that the frequency of predation traces increased notably by the Ordovician, and not in the mid-Paleozoic as suggested by multiple previous studies. Importantly, these estimates of predation intensity and global diversity of marine metazoans correlate throughout the Phanerozoic fossil record regardless of corrections and methods applied. This concordance may represent (i) an ecological signal: long-term coupling of diversity and predation; (ii) a diversity-driven diffusion of predatory behaviors: an increased probability of more complex predatory strategies to appear at higher diversity levels; or (iii) a spurious concordance in signal capture: an artifact where rare species and less-frequent (e.g., trace-producing) predatory behaviors are both more detectable at times when sampling improves. The coupling of predation and diversity records suggests that macroevolutionary and macroecological patterns share common causative mechanisms that may reflect either historical processes or sampling artifacts.

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"Predation on Recent Terebrid Gastro..." refers background in this paper

...Global as well as Indian drilling frequency on Recent terebrid gastropods is in general low compared to the modern global average of naticid drilling predation (Huntley & Kowalewski, 2007) (DF = 17%; see Vermeij et al., 1980, and their appendix 3) and 13.6% in India in particular (Table 1)....
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