"Spirorbis spirorbis " are cross fertilising hermaphrodites, who brood their young in a tube attached to the worm inside the shell.
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"Spirorbis spirorbis " are cross fertilising hermaphrodites, who brood their young in a tube attached to the worm inside the shell.
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The " Spirorbis " genus are cross fertilising hermaphrodites, who brood their young in a tube attached to the worm inside the shell.
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It is commonly called the "'sinistral spiral tubeworm "'and is the type species of the genus " Spirorbis ".
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A detailed study by Taylor and Vinn ( 2006 ) of the microstructure of fossils which have been traditionally identified as " " Spirorbis " " in the geological literature revealed that they consist of the remains of at least two completely different animals.
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Taylor and Vinn discovered that the " " Spirorbis " " fossils found in sedimentary strata, including the Joggins and other Carboniferous coal measures deposited from the Ordovician to Triassic periods are the remains of an extinct order of lophophorates ( now called microconchids ) unrelated to modern marine tube-worms ( Annelids ) to which the genus " Spirorbis " belongs.
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Taylor and Vinn discovered that the " " Spirorbis " " fossils found in sedimentary strata, including the Joggins and other Carboniferous coal measures deposited from the Ordovician to Triassic periods are the remains of an extinct order of lophophorates ( now called microconchids ) unrelated to modern marine tube-worms ( Annelids ) to which the genus " Spirorbis " belongs.
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This contradicts arguments made by Harold Coffin and other creationists that " " Spirorbis " " fossils within strata containing polystrate fossils indicate their deposition in a marine environment, because these fossils are classified as the remains of extinct fresh and brackish water microconchids instead of the remains of the marine genera " Spirorbis " as they have been misidentified in the geologic literature.
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This contradicts arguments made by Harold Coffin and other creationists that " " Spirorbis " " fossils within strata containing polystrate fossils indicate their deposition in a marine environment, because these fossils are classified as the remains of extinct fresh and brackish water microconchids instead of the remains of the marine genera " Spirorbis " as they have been misidentified in the geologic literature.