Fossil impressions of pectinariid tubes (Polychaeta) in Miocene sediments of the Sakhalin Island
S.Yu. Gagaev
Abstract. The fossil impressions of tubes belonging to the bristle worms of the family Pectinariidae and probably the genus Pectinaria Savigny, 1818 was found at the coastal cliffs of the Tartar Strait (Southern Sakhalin) in deposits of the late Miocene Kurasi Formation. Rare mentions of findings of impressions of the polychaetes tubes perhaps may be explained by the fact that such impressions are misidentified as fossils of animals from other higher taxa. Some new data on the bionomics of the recent pectinariids are given and some taphonomical aspects of the group are considered.
Key words: fossil impressions, tubes of polychaetes, Miocene sediments, South Sakhalin, Pectinariidae
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2017, 26(2): 212–214 ▪ Published in print 25 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2017.26.2.212 ▪ Open full article 
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