Daily Archives: November 24, 2017

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Barnacle borings from the Cretaceous of southwestern France

Small comma-shaped trace fossils this week in a Cretaceous (Upper Campanian) oyster (Pycnodonte vesicularis) from the Aubeterre Formation of southwestern France. (Locality C/W-747, Plage des Nonnes, to be exact.) These are borings produced by barnacles, which are sedentary crustaceans more … Continue reading

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