''Rogerella'' is a small pouch-shaped
boring (a type of
trace fossil
A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil (; from el, ἴχνος ''ikhnos'' "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity but not the preserved remains of the plant or animal itself. Trace fossils contrast with body fossils, ...
) with a slit-like aperture currently produced by
acrothoracican barnacles
A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in eros ...
. These crustaceans extrude their legs upwards through the opening for
filter-feeding
Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure. Some animals that use this method of feedin ...
(Seilacher, 1969; Lambers and Boekschoten, 1986). They are known in the fossil record as borings in carbonate substrates (shells and
hardgrounds) from the
Devonian to the Recent (Taylor and Wilson, 2003).
References
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* {{cite journal , author = Taylor, P.D., Wilson. M.A. , year = 2003 , title = Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities , journal = Earth-Science Reviews , volume = 62 , issue = 1–2 , pages = 1–103 , doi = 10.1016/S0012-8252(02)00131-9, bibcode = 2003ESRv...62....1T
Fossil taxa described in 2016