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Polychaeta taxon detailsArcharenicola rhaetica Horwood, 1912 †
956051 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:956051)
accepted
Species
marine
fossil only
Horwood, A. R. (1912). On Archarenicola rhaetica, sp. nov. <em>Geological Magazine.</em> 9(9): 395–399 & plate 21., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30539689
page(s): 396-399, plate XXI figs. 1-4; note: fossil [details] 
Holotype 32.1921 Leicester Museum, geounit Leicestershire
Holotype 32.1921 Leicester Museum, geounit Leicestershire [details] From editor or global species database
Type locality Glen Parva, Leicestershire, in Black Shales Lower Rhaetic stage, Triassic, gazetteer geolocation 52.5853° -1.1706° [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Archarenicola rhaetica Horwood, 1912 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=956051 on 2026-01-27
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original description
Horwood, A. R. (1912). On Archarenicola rhaetica, sp. nov. <em>Geological Magazine.</em> 9(9): 395–399 & plate 21., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30539689
page(s): 396-399, plate XXI figs. 1-4; note: fossil [details] additional source Howell, Benjamin F. (1962). Worms. <em>[Book section].</em> vol. W. 24 (A-X). in R.C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Lawrence, Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press, p. 144-177., available online at https://b-ok.cc/s/Treatise%20on%20Invertebrate%20Paleontology/?e=1 page(s): 809; note: mentioned as "burrows in black mud that were probably U-shaped" [details] Available for editors  [request]additional source Rouse, G. W.; Pleijel, F. (2001). Polychaetes. <em>Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK [etc.]. ISBN 0-19-850608-2.</em> 354 pp. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 15; note: noted as earliest Scolecida, but 'dubious' [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype 32.1921 Leicester Museum, geounit Leicestershire [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment A Triassic fossil invariably described as "the dubious Archarenicola" (eg Rouse & Pleijel 2001: 15). If correctly identified it is the earliest known fossil in Scolecida [details]Type locality Glen Parva, Leicestershire, in Black Shales Lower Rhaetic stage, Triassic, gazetteer geolocation 52.5853° -1.1706° [details] From editor or global species database
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