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Science 16 June 1978:
Vol. 200. no. 4347, pp. 1289 - 1291
DOI: 10.1126/science.200.4347.1289
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Deep-Sea Foraging Behavior: Its Bathymetric Potential in the Fossil Record

JENNIFER A. KITCHELL 1, JAMES F. KITCHELL 2, DAVID L. CLARK 3, and LOUIS DANGEARD 4

1 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison 53706
2 Department of Zoology, Laboratory of Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4 Institut Océanographique, 195 rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, SE, France

Spiral and meander foraging traces in the deep sea are not distributed in proportion to assumed food availability. Data collected by means of deep-sea photography failed to reveal a bathymetric gradient in behavioral complexity or sensitivity. The foraging paradigm developed by numerous trace fossil studies does not adequately predict the modern environment.

Submitted on November 28, 1977
Revised on February 24, 1978


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