Rogerella
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Rogerella is a small pouch-shaped boring (a type of trace fossil) with a slit-like aperture currently produced by acrothoracican barnacles. These crustaceans extrude their legs upwards through the opening for filter-feeding (Seilacher, 1969; Lambers and Boekschoten, 1986). They are known in the fossil record as borings in carbonate substrates (shells and hardgrounds) from the Devonian to the Recent (Taylor and Wilson, 2003).
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Rogerella elliptica borings in a Middle Jurassic (Callovian) crinoid stem (Matmor Formation, southern Israel). | |
Trace fossil classification | |
Ichnofamily: | †Rogerellidae |
Ichnogenus: | †Rogerella de Saint-Seine, 1951 |
Type ichnospecies | |
Rogerella lecointrei de Saint-Seine, 1951 | |
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