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Mihevc, Andrej. (2000). The fossilized tubes from the roofless cave - probably the oldest remains of the cave worm Marifugia (Annelida: Polychaeta). Acta Carsologica. 29(2): 261-270.
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Mihevc, Andrej
2000
The fossilized tubes from the roofless cave - probably the oldest remains of the cave worm Marifugia (Annelida: Polychaeta).
Acta Carsologica
29(2): 261-270
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
The paper is a report on the discovery of tubes of a fossilized cave serpulid in a roofless cave in the quarry above Č rni Kal village. The site and shape of the fossilized tubes are described. The animals lived attached to the scallops in the wall of the passage. The passage was later filled with clay deposits, followed by a layer of flowstone several metres thick. The roof of the passage has been removed by karst denudation and flowstone now reaches to the surface. Fragments of tubes of animals of various sizes have been preserved, attached to the rock wall, those tubes which grew at a right angle to the wall have broken off but have been preserved in the sediment. In terms of their dimension and shape the tubes remind one of the tubes of the more recent cave serpulid Marifugia cavatica Absolon and Hrabe. The positions of the preserved tubes and the dating of the nearby sediments by palaeomagnetic method indicate that the remains of the serpulids are from the Pliocene epoch or older.
Freshwater
Paleontology, Fossils, Paleobiology
Paleontology, Fossils, Paleobiology
Marifugia cavatica Absolon & Hrabe, 1930 (additional source)