I should have liked to learn from these fossil tube experts. Public
answers are more useful than private ones.
FWIW my suspicion as a non-expert on fossil tubes would be - modern tubes
or fragments can be recognised as pectinariid, fossil tube fragments
perhaps. But a quick look suggested the oldest pectinariid fossils
reported were only Miocene.
Geoff
On Tue, October 16, 2012 3:50 am, Olev Vinn wrote:
> Thank you very much to all who helped me with morphology of
> pectinariid-terebellid tubes.
>> Olev
>>> Dear annelidans,
>>>> I am currently studying a pectinariid-like agglutinated fossil tube from
>> the Cretacous. I asking your help regarding the possible morphological
>> difference between the agglutinated tubes made by Pectinariidae and
>> Terebellidae. Is it possible to distinguish Pectinariidae tubes from
>> Terebellidae tubes, based only on the tube?
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Olev
>>>>>> --
>> Dr. Olev Vinn
>> Department of Geology
>> University of Tartu
>> Ravila 14A
>> 50411 Tartu
>> Estonia
>>>> Tel./Fax +372 7 375 836
>> E-mail: olev.vinn from ut.ee>>http://www.ut.ee/~vinn
