Rotularia
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Rotularia Concava fossil | |
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Genus: | Rotularia Defrance, 1827
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Rotularia is an extinct genus of planispirally coiled fossil polychaete worms in the family Serpulidae. Owing to the gastropod-like shape of Rotularia, many authors in the past interpreted this genus as being sea snails in the family Vermetidae.
All Rotularia species were cemented to the substrate during their earliest growth stage, but they became detached shortly after the formation of the first whorls (Savazzi, 1995). Their tubes have two layers with different microstructure (Vinn, 2008). This genus is known from the early Kimmeridgian to Late Eocene (Jäger, 2004).
References
- Jäger, M. 2004. Serpulidae und Spirorbidae (Polychaeta sedentaria) aus Campan und Maastricht von Norddeutschland, den Niederlanden, Belgien und angrenzenden Gebieten. Geologisches Jahrbuch (A) 157, 121–249.
- Savazzi, E. 1995. Morphology and mode of life of the polychaete Rotularia. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 69, 73–85.
- Vinn, O. (2008). "Tube ultrastructure of the fossil genus Rotularia Defrance, 1827 (Polychaeta, Serpulidae)". Journal of Paleontology. 82: 206–212. doi:10.1666/06-125.1. S2CID 129387553. Retrieved 2014-06-12.Error: "Q2221495" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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