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Polychaeta taxon detailsRotularia bognoriensis (Mantell, 1822) †
marine, terrestrial
fossil only
Mantell, G. (1822). The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. <em>Lupton Relfe: London.</em> 1-328, pls. I-XLII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31183328
page(s): 272, no figures; note: South Downs, as Vermicularia bognoriensis (Turritellidae: Gastropoda) [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Rotularia bognoriensis (Mantell, 1822) †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1561413 on 2025-06-02
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original description
Mantell, G. (1822). The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. <em>Lupton Relfe: London.</em> 1-328, pls. I-XLII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31183328
page(s): 272, no figures; note: South Downs, as Vermicularia bognoriensis (Turritellidae: Gastropoda) [details] new combination reference Wrigley, Arthur. (1951). Some Eocene serpulids. <em>Proceedings of the Geological Association, London.</em> 62: 177-202., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016787851800208 page(s): 178-184, figures 1-15, 20-30; note: abundant in London Clay at Bognor [details] Available for editors  [request]From editor or global species database
Classification Wrigley (1951: 182) made the following justification when he transferred Vermicularia bognoriensis to the serpulids: "Stoliczka, Cossmann and other authors have placed this organism in the Vermetidae, among the gastropod Mollusca, but the preceding descriptions show this to be an error. All the Vermetidae, like other gastropods, have a closed, spirally coiled apex, while R. bognoriensis, like Spirorbis, originates in a straight, open-ended tube which is attached to a solid object. As already noted, a gastropod of similar form, like Solarium, has an exactly opposite mode of coiling and is not attached at its apex. Then, too, R. bognoriensis has a tube wall whose structure is that of a serpulid, with an outer skin of calcite, where the shell of a vermetid or any comparable mollusc, is aragonitic. Although it belongs to an extinct group, we may infer that R. bognoriensis was a serpulid annelid. " [details]
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