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Polychaeta taxon details

Microconchus Phillips in Murchison, 1839 †

394402  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:394402)

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Murchison, R. I. (1839). The Silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford : with descriptions of the coalfields and overlying formations. [Book, 3 volumes, vol 1 by Murchison] John Murray, Albemarle Street., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/88029#/summary
page(s): vol. 1, p.84,88, Fig D1-10 [details]   
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Microconchus Phillips in Murchison, 1839 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=394402 on 2024-03-29
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original description Murchison, R. I. (1839). The Silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford : with descriptions of the coalfields and overlying formations. [Book, 3 volumes, vol 1 by Murchison] John Murray, Albemarle Street., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/88029#/summary
page(s): vol. 1, p.84,88, Fig D1-10 [details]   

basis of record Lommerzheim, A. 1979. Monographische Bearbeitung der Serpulidae (Polychaeta sedentaria) aus dem Cenoman (Oberkreide) am Südwestrand des Münsterländer Beckens. Decheniana - Beihefte (Bonn)., 132: 110-195.
page(s): 167 [details]   

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. A List of the Names of Genera and Subgenera in Zoology from the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935. <em>[Book series, initial set of 4 volumes].</em> vol I. A-C. II. D-L. III. M-P. IV. Q-Z. V supplement (1945). vol VI. (1955). vol IX (1996)., available online at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000110544
page(s): 152 [details]   

status source Zaton, Michal; Vinn, Olev. 2011. Microconchids [Fossils explained 62]. Geology Today 27(6): 236-239 [details]   
From editor or global species database
Classification Not valid as Annelida: Polychaeta, where it was first placed in WoRMS, and belongs elsewhere. Morphological similarity to the Spirorbinae is suggested to be a result of evolutionary convergence. Representative of fossil order Microconchida Weedon, 1991, currently thought to belong to the lophophorates along with bryozoa and phoronids. "Only six microconchid genera have so far been established: Annuliconchus (Silurian), Palaeoconchus (Late Ordovician-Devonian), Polonoconchus (Middle Devonian), Microconchus (Devonian-Triassic), Helicoconchus (Early Permian) and Punctaconchus (Jurassic) ..." [details]

Editor's comment An early spirorbiform "spirorbid" from the Paleozoic, and thus suspect as spirorbid, see Weedon (1994) [details]