The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan

Abstract The feeding behavior of the giant ambush-predator “Bobbit worm” (Eunice aphroditois) is spectacular. They hide in their burrows until they explode upwards grabbing unsuspecting prey with a snap of their powerful jaws. The still living prey are then pulled into the sediment for consumption....

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Autores principales:	Yu-Yen Pan, Masakazu Nara, Ludvig Löwemark, Olmo Miguez-Salas, Björn Gunnarson, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Tzu-Tung Chen, Shahin E. Dashtgard
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:299040fcbeb046549cfa5a57e6eec7e92021-12-02T15:23:28ZThe 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan10.1038/s41598-020-79311-02045-2322https://doaj.org/article/299040fcbeb046549cfa5a57e6eec7e92021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79311-0https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract The feeding behavior of the giant ambush-predator “Bobbit worm” (Eunice aphroditois) is spectacular. They hide in their burrows until they explode upwards grabbing unsuspecting prey with a snap of their powerful jaws. The still living prey are then pulled into the sediment for consumption. Although predatory polychaetes have existed since the early Paleozoic, their bodies comprise mainly soft tissue, resulting in a very incomplete fossil record, and virtually nothing is known about their burrows and behavior beneath the seafloor. Here we use morphological, sedimentological, and geochemical data from Miocene strata in northeast Taiwan to erect a new ichnogenus, Pennichnus. This trace fossil consists of an up to 2 m long, 2–3 cm in diameter, L-shaped burrow with distinct feather-like structures around the upper shaft. A comparison of Pennichnus to biological analogs strongly suggests that this new ichnogenus is associated with ambush-predatory worms that lived about 20 million years ago.Yu-Yen PanMasakazu NaraLudvig LöwemarkOlmo Miguez-SalasBjörn GunnarsonYoshiyuki IizukaTzu-Tung ChenShahin E. DashtgardNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Yu-Yen Pan Masakazu Nara Ludvig Löwemark Olmo Miguez-Salas Björn Gunnarson Yoshiyuki Iizuka Tzu-Tung Chen Shahin E. Dashtgard The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan
description	Abstract The feeding behavior of the giant ambush-predator “Bobbit worm” (Eunice aphroditois) is spectacular. They hide in their burrows until they explode upwards grabbing unsuspecting prey with a snap of their powerful jaws. The still living prey are then pulled into the sediment for consumption. Although predatory polychaetes have existed since the early Paleozoic, their bodies comprise mainly soft tissue, resulting in a very incomplete fossil record, and virtually nothing is known about their burrows and behavior beneath the seafloor. Here we use morphological, sedimentological, and geochemical data from Miocene strata in northeast Taiwan to erect a new ichnogenus, Pennichnus. This trace fossil consists of an up to 2 m long, 2–3 cm in diameter, L-shaped burrow with distinct feather-like structures around the upper shaft. A comparison of Pennichnus to biological analogs strongly suggests that this new ichnogenus is associated with ambush-predatory worms that lived about 20 million years ago.
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author	Yu-Yen Pan Masakazu Nara Ludvig Löwemark Olmo Miguez-Salas Björn Gunnarson Yoshiyuki Iizuka Tzu-Tung Chen Shahin E. Dashtgard
author_facet	Yu-Yen Pan Masakazu Nara Ludvig Löwemark Olmo Miguez-Salas Björn Gunnarson Yoshiyuki Iizuka Tzu-Tung Chen Shahin E. Dashtgard
author_sort	Yu-Yen Pan
title	The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan
title_short	The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan
title_full	The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan
title_fullStr	The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed	The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan
title_sort	20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast taiwan
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/299040fcbeb046549cfa5a57e6eec7e9
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The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan

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