Reconstructing the feeding ecology of Cambrian sponge reefs: the case for active suspension feeding in Archaeocyatha [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Sponge-grade Archaeocyatha were early Cambrian biomineralizing metazoans that constructed reefs globally. Despite decades of research, many facets of archaeocyath palaeobiology remain unclear, making it difficult to reconstruct the palaeoecology of ...
Brandt M. Gibson +6 more
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Pentaradial eukaryote suggests expansion of suspension feeding in White Sea-aged Ediacaran communities [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Suspension feeding is a key ecological strategy in modern oceans that provides a link between pelagic and benthic systems. Establishing when suspension feeding first became widespread is thus a crucial research area in ecology and evolution, with ...
Kelsie Cracknell +5 more
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Suspension feeding in Copepoda (Crustacea) – a numerical model of setae acting in concert [PDF]
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2023 Suspension feeding via setae collecting particles is common within Crustacea. Even though the mechanisms behind it and the structures themselves have been studied for decades, the interplay between the different setae types and the parameters ...
Alexander E. Filippov +2 more
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New suspension-feeding radiodont suggests evolution of microplanktivory in Cambrian macronekton [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Planktonic life was well established by the Cambrian, but few nektonic filter feeders have been identified. Here, the authors provide fossil evidence that Pahvantia hastata was a suspension-feeder that likely captured much smaller plankton than any other
Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, Stephen Pates
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Oral cavity hydrodynamics and drag production in Balaenid whale suspension feeding. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Balaenid whales feed on large aggregates of small and slow-moving prey (predominantly copepods) through a filtration process enabled by baleen. These whales exhibit continuous filtration, namely, with the mouth kept partially opened and the baleen ...
Jean Potvin, Alexander J Werth
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Suspension feeding in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium demonstrates complexity of Neoproterozoic ecosystems [PDF]
Science Advances, 2015 Imran A. Rahman +2 more
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Revista Peruana de Biología, 2023 The gastropod Pachyoliva columellaris (formerly Olivella columellaris) is particularly common on many sandy beaches in North Peru. In the studied region north of Paita, Piura province, the species reaches densities of over 80000 individuals per beach ...
Winfried Peters
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Hydrodynamic analysis of bioinspired vortical cross-step filtration by computational modelling
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Research on the suspension-feeding apparatus of fishes has led recently to the identification of novel filtration mechanisms involving vortices. Structures inside fish mouths form a series of ‘backward-facing steps' by protruding medially into the mouth ...
S. Van Wassenbergh, S. L. Sanderson
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Was the Devonian placoderm Titanichthys a suspension feeder? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Large nektonic suspension feeders have evolved multiple times. The apparent trend among apex predators for some evolving into feeding on small zooplankton is of interest for understanding the associated shifts in anatomy and behaviour, while the spatial ...
Samuel J. Coatham +3 more
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Fishes, 2023 Filter-feeding invertebrates such as bivalves have been shown to improve the health of aquatic systems by reducing concentrations of bacteria and other harmful suspended organisms, but it remains unknown if microphagous suspension-feeding fishes can ...
Parker Kalan +4 more
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