Fabrication and function of ammonite septa-comment on Lewy

From: Journal of Paleontology | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Checa, Antonio G | Copyright information

LEWY (2002) ADDRESSED a variety of the muscular-attachment hypothesis for the function of the ammonite septal suture, namely, that of fastening the body to the shell during active prey subjugation. In this way, sutural complexity is an index of how active the ammonite was as a carnivore. He followed Henderson (1984, p. 461) in that complex septa "facilitated the attachment of adductor muscles" (Lewy, 2002, p. 64). Without adding new data, Lewy (2002) discredited not only other functional hypo...

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