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CORNULITIDAE
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFF34FCFFE7CBFCC2" box="[142,249,839,860]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Remarks:</emphasis>
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as a family containing four genera
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFD90FCDEE592FCE5" box="[554,672,870,891]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Cornulites</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFE9FFC3DE689FC04" box="[293,443,901,922]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Conchicolites</emphasis>
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,
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and
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFE10FC1BE53FFC26" box="[426,525,931,952]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Kolihaia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF14B0BFFF8087DFDA3FC1BE59DFC27" author="Prantl F" box="[537,687,931,953]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" pagination="5" refId="ref13993" refString="Prantl F. 1946. Kolihaia eremita nov. gen., nov. spec., a new Tubicolar Annelide from the Silurian of Bohemia. Memoires de la Societe Royale des Lettres et des Sciences de Boheme, Annee 1944: 5." type="journal article" year="1946">Prantl, 1946</bibRefCitation>
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. Only Silurian species of
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are described here, and a revision of the whole group is not attempted, but previously published descriptions and illustrations suggest that cornulitids have been excessively subdivided at generic level. For example,
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[a name proposed by
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to replace
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, which Howell showed to be preoccupied] was originally described by
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as separable from
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFE9BFB0FE6A5FB52" box="[289,407,1207,1228]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Cornulites</emphasis>
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on the grounds that its shell was smaller, entirely attached to other organisms, devoid of costae, and had a cellular structure restricted to just one side of the shell. However, this comparison was based on
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being defined as a large, unattached shell with distinct costae, rather than the small form originally figured by
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. If the
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species of
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</emphasis>
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(
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)
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is compared with Schlotheims illustration of
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, the only clear morphological difference is the presence of a cellular structure on one side of the shell of
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFDE9F9B1E58AF980" box="[595,696,1545,1566]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">C. conica</emphasis>
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. The degree of attachment of a cornulitid is at least partly dependent on the availability of suitable substrate (
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; also see below) and is an unreliable character upon which to found a genus.
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The criteria originally used to define
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFDDAF91AE5C4F929" box="[608,758,1698,1719]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Conchicolites</emphasis>
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are also dubious, since
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erected the taxon to include cornulitids that were smaller than
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and occurred in large clusters attached to a foreign body. Unlike
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, no cellular shell structure was observed and the tube wall was thin, but
<bibRefCitation id="EFF14B0BFFF8087DFF7BF8E2E6A6F8EE" author="Nicholson HA" box="[193,404,1882,1904]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" pagination="446 - 449" refId="ref13874" refString="Nicholson HA. 1872 b. On Ortonia, a new genus of fossil tubicolar Annelides, with notes on the genus Tentaculites. Geological Magazine 9: 446 - 449." type="journal article" year="1872">Nicholson (1872b)</bibRefCitation>
separated
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFDA4F8E2E586F8F1" box="[542,692,1882,1903]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Conchicolites</emphasis>
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from
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFC9CFF7BE482FF46" box="[806,944,195,216]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Cornulitella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
essentially on ecological grounds, the latter being more completely attached to its substrate and never occurring in such large clusters. Nevertheless, subsequent authors (e.g.
<bibRefCitation id="EFF14B0BFFF8087DFB2AFEA7E217FEAB" author="Prantl F" box="[1168,1317,287,309]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" pagination="1 - 6" refId="ref14038" refString="Prantl F. 1950. The genus Conchicolites Nicholson, 1872 (Serpulimorpha) in the Ordovician of Bohemia. Memoires de la Societe Royale des Lettres et des Sciences de Boheme, Annee 1948 (9): 1 - 6." type="journal article" year="1950">Prantl, 1950</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EFF14B0BFFF8087DFA8CFEA7E48EFECA" author="Vinn O &amp; Mutvei H" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" pagination="726 - 737" refId="ref14426" refString="Vinn O, Mutvei H. 2005. Observations on the morphology and affinities of cornulitids from the Ordovician of Anticosti Island and the Silurian of Gotland. Journal of Paleontology 79: 726 - 737." type="journal article" year="2005">Vinn &amp; Mutvei, 2005</bibRefCitation>
) have argued that
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFB2BFE86E215FECD" box="[1169,1319,318,339]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Conchicolites</emphasis>
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is generically distinct, emphasizing that its thinner, noncellular shell wall structure distinguishes it clearly from
<taxonomicName id="4C604D79FFF8087DFCDDFE22E4EFFE31" authorityName="Schlotheim" authorityYear="1820" box="[871,989,410,431]" class="Tentaculita" family="Cornulitidae" genus="Cornulites" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cornulitida" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFCDDFE22E4EFFE31" box="[871,989,410,431]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Cornulites</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Indeed,
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suggested that the two taxa were probably unrelated and that cornulitids may be a polyphyletic taxon.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDF36FAFFF8087DFC85FE4EE313FD5A" blockId="2.[806,1422,195,1107]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">
The fourth taxon included in the
<taxonomicName id="4C604D79FFF8087DFB6CFE4EE254FD92" authorityName="FISHER" authorityYear="1962" box="[1238,1382,502,524]" class="Tentaculita" family="Cornulitidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cornulitida" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" phylum="Mollusca" rank="family">Cornulitidae</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation id="EFF14B0BFFF8087DFC9CFDADE4F0FDB5" author="Fisher DW" box="[806,962,533,555]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" pagination="143" refId="ref13297" refString="Fisher DW. 1962. Small conoidal shells of uncertain affinities. In: Moore RC, ed. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part W. Miscellanea. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America and Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, W 98 - W 143." type="book chapter" year="1962">Fisher (1962)</bibRefCitation>
<taxonomicName id="4C604D79FFF8087DFC59FDADE272FDB5" authority="Prantl, 1946" authorityName="Prantl" authorityYear="1946" box="[995,1344,533,555]" class="Tentaculita" family="Cornulitidae" genus="Kolihaia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cornulitida" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" rank="species" species="eremita">
<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFC59FDADE397FDB4" box="[995,1189,533,554]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Kolihaia eremita</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF14B0BFFF8087DFB0AFDADE272FDB5" author="Prantl F" box="[1200,1344,533,555]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" pagination="5" refId="ref13993" refString="Prantl F. 1946. Kolihaia eremita nov. gen., nov. spec., a new Tubicolar Annelide from the Silurian of Bohemia. Memoires de la Societe Royale des Lettres et des Sciences de Boheme, Annee 1944: 5." type="journal article" year="1946">Prantl, 1946</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
was diagnosed as a tubular shell with radical [proximal] expansions that may bifurcate (
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: W138), indicating a taxon quite unlike
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFB37FDC9E231FD18" box="[1165,1283,625,646]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Cornulites</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
;
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFAABFDC9E246FD18" box="[1297,1396,625,646]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Kolihaia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is now regarded as an epiplanktic anthozoan (Kříž, Fřýda &amp; Galle, 2001).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDF36FAFFF8087DFC85FD75E343FBCC" blockId="2.[806,1422,195,1107]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">
In his brief account of
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from the Silurian of
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,
<bibRefCitation id="EFF14B0BFFF8087DFC49FD54E39EFC9F" author="Larsson K" box="[1011,1196,747,769]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" pagination="208 - 210" refId="ref13678" refString="Larsson K. 1979 a. Cornulitids. In: Jaanusson V, Laufeld S, Skoglund R, eds. Lower Wenlock faunal and floral dynamics - Vattenfallet section, Gotland. Sveriges Geologiska Undersokning, Uppsala, C 762: 208 - 210." type="journal article" year="1979">Larsson (1979a)</bibRefCitation>
identified four new genera, but did not describe, illustrate or propose names for them.
<bibRefCitation id="EFF14B0BFFF8087DFC54FC91E3DDFCA1" author="Vinn O &amp; Mutvei H" box="[1006,1263,809,831]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" pagination="726 - 737" refId="ref14426" refString="Vinn O, Mutvei H. 2005. Observations on the morphology and affinities of cornulitids from the Ordovician of Anticosti Island and the Silurian of Gotland. Journal of Paleontology 79: 726 - 737." type="journal article" year="2005">Vinn &amp; Mutvei (2005)</bibRefCitation>
reviewed the material, but did not erect formal taxonomic names, although
<bibRefCitation id="EFF14B0BFFF8087DFC22FCDEE310FCE2" author="Vinn O" box="[920,1058,870,892]" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" pagination="297 - 299" refId="ref14378" refString="Vinn O. 2004. A new spiny cornulitid from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden. GFF 126: 297 - 299." type="journal article" year="2004">Vinn (2004)</bibRefCitation>
named
<taxonomicName id="4C604D79FFF8087DFB3DFCDEE2BFFCE5" box="[1159,1421,870,891]" class="Tentaculita" family="Cornulitidae" genus="Cornulites" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cornulitida" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="gotlandicus">
<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFB3DFCDEE2BFFCE5" box="[1159,1421,870,891]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Cornulites gotlandicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the Ludlow age Hemse Beds and later recognized the putative cornulitid genus
<taxonomicName id="4C604D79FFF8087DFB3EFC1BE3C1FC26" authorityName="Vinn" authorityYear="2005" box="[1156,1267,931,952]" class="Tentaculita" family="Cornulitidae" genus="Septalites" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cornulitida" pageId="2" pageNumber="683" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFB3EFC1BE3C1FC26" box="[1156,1267,931,952]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Septalites</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, also of Ludlow age (Vinn, 2005). Although
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<emphasis id="B914EAE8FFF8087DFB2EFC7AE238FC49" box="[1172,1290,962,983]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="683">Cornulites</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the only cornulitid genus recognized in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, other genera certainly exist, and the diversity of the group through the Palaeozoic requires further assessment.
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