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I.—Upper Cretaceous Terebelloids from England1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. A. Bather
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In April, 1879, William Davies published in the GeologicalMagazine (n.s., Dec. II, Vol. VI. pp. 145–8) a paper on “Some Fish Exuviæ from the Chalk, generally referred to Dercetis elongatus, Ag.; and on a new species of Fossil Annelide, Terebella Lewesiensis”. Herein he discussed certain longitudinal or tubular agglomerations of fish-debris, originally named Murœna(?) Lewesiensis, by G. A. Mantell, but subsequently assigned by L. Agassiz to the fish described by him as Dercetis elongatus. References to the various papers and books in which these remains had been mentioned will be found in the paper quoted. From his profound knowledge of fossil fish Davies was able to show that these agglomerations contained the remains of more than one species of fish, and he considered that the fragments had been collected and affixed to their tubes by annelids allied to the modern Terebella. It is well known that some living species of that genus have similar tube-building habits, so that the suggestion made by Davies has been generally accepted, and the specimens in the British Museum on which he based his conclusions have since then been labelled Terebella(?) Lewesiensis Mantell sp.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 11 , November 1911 , pp. 481 - 487
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1911

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Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.

References

page 484 note 1 Dwelling in clay.

page 485 note 1 Die Gymnospermen der böhmischen Kreideformation, Prag, 1885 ; see p. 33, pl. viii, fig. 1Google Scholar.

page 485 note 2 e.g. Phorus agglutinans covers its shell with extraneous objects; one form carefully using rocks is called ‘the mineralogist’, another selecting small shells is called ‘the conchologist’: this supposed selection may, after all, be due to the occurrence of shells in one locality and stones in another.—EDITOR.