Biology:Diplochaetetes longitubus
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Scientific classification 
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| Species: | Template:Taxonomy/DiplochaetetesD. longitubus
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| Template:Taxonomy/DiplochaetetesDiplochaetetes longitubus Weissermel, 1913
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Diplochaetetes longitubus is an extinct species of cirratulid polychaete within the genus Diplochaetetes known from Namibian sedimentary rocks dating back to the Eocene.[1] It was initially described as a tabulate coral, but research carried out on present-day Dodecaceria aggregates and Diplochaetetes mexicanus fossils from the pacific coasts of the Americas has led researchers to classify the entire genus as cirratulid polychaetes.[2][3][4] For many decades, they've also been erroneously attributed to sponges.[5]
A subspecies named Diplochaetetes longitubus vermicularis was also later described from Eocene Namibian sediments.[6]
Although present-day Dodecaceria and fossil Diplochaetetes aggregates from Peru have been confirmed to show identical double-phased biomineralization characteristics,[7] no detailed analysis has been performed on their Namibian counterparts so it's unclear whether the trait is shared on a broad genus basis.
References
- ↑ "Uber tertiäre Versteinerungen von den Bogenfelser Diamantfeldern II. Tabulaten und Hydrozoen". Beiträge zur geologischen Erforschung der deutschen Schutzgebiete 5: 84–111. 1913.
- ↑ "Discussion of the colonial tube-building polychaetous annelid Dodecaceria fistulicola Ehlers". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 51: 103–107. 1952. doi:10.3160/0038-3872-51.3.103.
- ↑ "Skeletal structure, growth, and paleoecology of the patch reef-buildingpolychaete worm Diplochaetetes mexicanus wilson, 1986 from the oligocene of baja california (Mexico)". Geobios 22 (6): 761–775. 1989. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(89)80071-3. Bibcode: 1989Geobi..22..761F. http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/7119.
- ↑ "Organomineralization of cirratulid annelid tubes-fossil and recent examples". Facies 42 (1): 35–49. 2000. doi:10.1007/BF02562565. Bibcode: 2000Faci...42...35F.
- ↑ "The first tertiary sclerosponge from the Americas". Palaeontology 29 (3): 577–583. 1986.
- ↑ "Neues uber Tabulaten, Hydrozoen und eine Hexakoralle aus dem Tertiar der Bogenfelser Diamantenfelder". Die Diamantenwuste Sudwest-Afrikas. (Ed Kaiser, H.) 2: 88–106. 1926.
- ↑ "Double-phased controlled and influenced biomineralization in marine invertebrates: The example of Miocene to recent reef-building polychaete cirratulids from southern Peru". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 639. 2024. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112060. Bibcode: 2024PPP...63912060G.
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