original description
White, C. A. (1878). Descriptions of New Species of Invertebrate Fossils from the Carboniferous and Upper Silurian Rocks of Illinois and Indiana. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 30: 29-37.
page(s): 37 [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Although described as belonging to Serpula, typegenus of the annelid family Serpulidae (calcareous tubeworms), the taxon cannot belong here based on its original very short diagnosis, as burrowing organism without a proper tube. It has long been accepted as a Foraminifera. Moreover, Vinn et al (2014) place the probable origin of the calcareous tubeworms in the Triassic, questionably Carboniferous. [details]