Probable cirripede, phoronid, and echiuroid burrows within a Cretaceous echinoid test

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Probable cirripede, phoronid, and echiuroid burrows within a Cretaceous echinoid test

  • Volume / Part: 1 / 4
  • Publication Date: January 1959
  • Page(s): 397 - 400
  • Authored By: K. A. Joysey

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Natural flint casts representing several different types of burrows were found within the thickness of the test of a Chalk echinoid. They have been compared with the burrows inhabited by various living animals. It is concluded that they indicate the probable presence of an acrothoracican cirripede, a phoronid, and an echiuroid, and the possible presence of a lamellibranch, polychaet and other 'worms', and sponges. No new names are proposed for these burrows because they cannot be regarded as parts of organisms.


Citations

JOYSEY, K. A. 1959. Probable cirripede, phoronid, and echiuroid burrows within a Cretaceous echinoid test. Palaeontology, 1, 4, 397–400.