Naticid drilling predation on gastropod assemblages across the K–T boundary in Rajahmundry, India: New evidence for escalation hypothesis

One of the important and well documented prey–predator interactions in the fossil record is drilling predation done by naticid gastropods which diversified during the Cretaceous. Although drilling frequencies showed fluctuating patterns, most of the previous studies argued that naticid drilling predation was less intense during the Cretaceous and the modern values were achieved since the Paleocene. We, here, present a new dataset of naticid...