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Tube ultrastructure of the fossil genus Rotularia Defrance, 1827 (Polychaeta, Serpulidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Olev Vinn
Olev Vinn*
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Institute of Geology, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
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Among Polychaete annelids, calcareous tubes occur in Serpulidae, Spirorbidae, Sabellidae, and Cirratulidae (Perkins, 1991; Fischer et al., 2000). The tubes of most serpulids are completely or partially cemented to the substrate. The fossil genus Rotularia has a peculiar unattached, spirally coiled tube, thus well distinguishable from the other known serpulids. Tube records of Rotularia are known from Mesozoic (Late Jurassic) (Ball, 1960; Stevens, 1967) to Early Tertiary sediments, becoming very common during the Cretaceous and Eocene (see Savazzi, 1995). It also has a global distribution (Wrigley, 1951; Ball, 1960; Keen, 1961; Regenhardt, 1961; Howell, 1962; Stevens, 1967; Chiplonkar and Tapaswi, 1973; Ware, 1975; Lommerzheim, 1979; Macellari, 1984; Jäger, 1993).

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 206 - 212
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