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Muensteria vermicularis (STERNBERG)

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Here we offer a large and very nice preserved Specimen of a Feather duster worm. (Sabellidae) More precisely it is the Tube of a Sabellid Worm. The Animal lived in this soft and flexible Tubes. They consumed small particles and microorganism that they filter out the water with there feather scalped tentacle crown. In the Lithographic limestone show this tubes no traces of agglutinated hard particles like sand of shell fragments. But under ultra violet light the finds from Solnhofen show traces of organic material. On some today living forms of feather duster worms is the Agglutination of hard particles in there tubes knows. But is seems that the Tubes from Muensteria vermicularis where may only build by Polysaccharides. This remarkable piece shows also the end of the living chamber, it is a complete specimen. Mostly we find only fragments of this interesting fossil, this tube is Complete. On the End of the Tube are some traces of impressions visible, maybe this are remains of the Worm itself. The Tube is 174 mm long.

	Location:	Eichstätt, Solnhofen, Deutschland
	Size of stone:	about 40 x 135 mm
	Age:	Upper Jurasic , Malm zeta (about. 150 Mill. years)

Product no.: 2811