First record of sabellid and serpulid polychaetes from the Permian of Sicily Author Sanfilippo, Rossana Author Rosso, Antonietta Author Reitano, Agatino Author Insacco, Gianni text Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 2017 2016-09-30 62 1 25 38 http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00288.2016 journal article 10.4202/app.00288.2016 1732-2421 Genus Glomerula Brünnich Nielsen, 1931 Type species : Serpulites gordialis von Schlotheim, 1820 , Middle or Late Oxfordian (161–158 Ma) of Mordovia region , Russia . Emended diagnosis .—Tube calcareous, solitary or pseudocolonial, straight to variably coiled or meandering, typically disposed as knots, spirals and tangles; an erect portion may be present. Tube occasionally showing crescentic cavities within the tube wall, and specimens from the Cretaceous and Cenozoic may occasionally show trilobate narrowings of the lumen. Tubes smooth, without ornamentation, peristomes and basal seam (compiled from Regenhardt 1961 ; Jäger 2005 ; Ippolitov 2007a ). Stratigraphic and geographic range .—Upper Permian of Australia ; Wordian to upper Permian of Italy ; Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Europe, Asia, South America; Recent (Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia ).