I have reduced the images to modest sizes and reattached.
Any ideas as to what organism lived in this tube?
Geoff
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Subject: Tube worms?
Date sent: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:53:29 +1200
From: <p.sheppard at auckland.ac.nz>
To: <annelida-owner at magpie.bio.indiana.edu>
Dear Folks:
While doing some work in the Solomon Islands in April I was shown some tube
like shells or concretions. I attach two photos. People have found this in
coastal swamps and insist that they contain some living organism. I am
wondering if they are fossil tube worms. Any ideas?
Cheers, Peter
Assoc. Prof. Peter J. Sheppard
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand
ph 64-09-373-7599 x88572
Fax- 64-09-373-7441
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/anthttp://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/ant/NGAS/ngashome.html
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