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The role of echinoids in shaping environments

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The role of echinoids in shaping the environment of marine and terrestrial biota is considered. The participation of echinoids in bioerosion, bioturbation of sediments, and their relationships with symbionts, parasites and predators, as well as the role of echinoid skeletons in rock formation, are discussed.

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  1. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 123, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    A. N. Solovjev & A. V. Markov

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Original Russian Text © A.N. Solovjev, A.V. Markov, 2013, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2013, No. 5, pp. 23–27.

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Solovjev, A.N., Markov, A.V. The role of echinoids in shaping environments. Paleontol. J. 47, 480–484 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030113050109

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