@article{8a3b849c83ce47ffad9172f800e1b31a,
title = "OOimmuration: Enhanced fossil preservation by ooids, with examples from the middle jurassic of Southwestern Utah, USA",
abstract = "Ooimmuration is here defined as a taphonomic process by which fossils are preserved within ooids. It is a form of lithoimmuration, although depending on the role of microbes in the formation of the ooid cortex, ooimmuration can also be considered a type of bioimmuration. Fossils enclosed within ooids are protected from bioerosion as well as the abrasion common in energetic depositional environments such as ooid shoals. Many taxa in some fossil assemblages may be known only because they were ooimmured. We describe as examples of ooimmuration fossils preserved in an oolite from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Carmel Formation in southwestern Utah.",
author = "Wilson, {Mark A.} and Cooke, {Anna M.} and Judge, {Shelley A.} and Palmer, {Timothy J.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Nick Wiesenberg and Evan Shadbolt (The College of Wooster) for assistance during fieldwork in Utah. Prof. Dr. Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel (University College London) helped us identify the foraminiferans in an ongoing related project. Thank you as well to the Hyrum Smith family for access to their ranch land near Gunlock, Utah. Two reviewers, Paul Wright and Bruno Granier, along with the PALAIOS editors, provided comments that significantly improved this paper. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)",
year = "2021",
month = oct,
day = "27",
doi = "10.2110/PALO.2021.036",
language = "English",
volume = "36",
pages = "326--329",
journal = "Palaios",
issn = "0883-1351",
publisher = "Society for Sedimentary Geology",
number = "10",
}