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Figure 8. A–H in Identification of fossil worm tubes from Phanerozoic hydrothermal vents and cold seeps
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- 1. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom; & School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom;
- 2. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom;
- 3. Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom;
- 4. Core Research Laboratories, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
- 5. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom;
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Figure 8. A–H, 'Omagari tubes', Campanian, Hokkaido, Japan; A, OMG03-4a, hand specimen with many, similar-diameter tubes with brown walls encased in carbonate; B, OMG03-3b, detail of tube with brown wall, outer wall appears smooth; C, D, OMG03-1, cluster of tubes (C) with mineralized walls but not encased in carbonate, and detail of individual tubes (D); E, OMG03-2, tubes with brown walls in section; F, OMG03-4b, large-diameter tube in transverse section with wall comprised of many layers; G, OMG03-1, preserved tear in the wall of a tube suggesting an originally fibrous nature; H, clump of Omagari tubes (reproduced from Hikida et al. 2003). I, clump of the roots of the seep vestimentiferan Lamellibrachia luymesi (donated by C. Fisher). Scale bars: A = 10 mm; B = 1 mm; C = 5 mm; D, E = 2 mm; F = 500 µm; G = 50 µm; H, I = 20 mm.
Notes
Published as part of Georgieva, Magdalena N., Little, Crispin T. S., Watson, Jonathan S., Sephton, Mark A., Ball, Alexander D. & Glover, Adrian G., 2019, Identification of fossil worm tubes from Phanerozoic hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, pp. 287-329 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17 (4) on page 300, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1412362, http://zenodo.org/record/10883381
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