Ecology of the recent deep-water rhynchonellid brachiopod Cryptopora from the Rockall Trough

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Author: Curry, G.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier BV 1983
• Subjects: Gnomon; Rockall Trough; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/52472/; https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-0182(83)90006-8

The ecology of Cryptopora gnomon (Jeffreys), a small (6 mm maximum length), very thin-shelled, rhynchonellid brachiopod collected from a depth of approximately 2900 metres in the Rockall Trough, eastern North Atlantic, is described. The pedicle of this species is very variable in length, and in some...