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If the shell incorporates "grains of sediment", then does that imply, that the shell was formed in situ, in the sediment, by a burrowing creature?
No, the creature may well have "picked up" the grains from the sea floor and stuck them into a sticky matrix, like some modern
foramanifera.
Martin(
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If the shell incorporates "grains of sediment", then does that imply, that the shell was formed in situ, in the sediment, by a burrowing creature?
No, the creature may well have "picked up" the grains from the sea floor and stuck them into a sticky matrix, like some modern
foramanifera.
Martin(
Smith609 –
Talk) 13:25, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
