Rogerella

Rogerella
Rogerella elliptica borings in a Middle Jurassic (Callovian) crinoid stem (Matmor Formation, southern Israel).
Trace fossil classification
Ichnofamily: †Rogerellidae
Ichnogenus: †Rogerella
de Saint-Seine, 1951
Type ichnospecies
Rogerella lecointrei
de Saint-Seine, 1951
Ichnospecies
  • R. arbiglandensis (Smith, 1910)
  • R. caudata Voigt, 1967
  • R. caveata (Tomlinson, 1963)
  • R. cragini Schlaudt & Young, 1960
  • R. davenporti (Tomlinson, 1969)
  • R. elliptica (Codez in Codez & de Saint-Seine, 1958)
  • R. elongata (Codez in Codez & de Saint-Seine, 1958)
  • R. lecointrei de Saint-Seine, 1951
  • R. linii (Hyde, 1953)
  • R. mathieui de Saint-Seine, 1955
  • R. oostoma (Seguenza, 1879)
  • R. pattei (de Saint-Seine, 1955)
  • R. polonica (Bałuk & Radwański, 1991)
  • R. sacculus (Mägdefrau, 1937)
Synonyms
  • Seminolithes Hyde, 1953
  • Zapfella de Saint-Seine, 1954
  • Brachyzapfes Codez in Codez & de Saint-Seine, 1958
  • Simonizapfes Codez in Codez & de Saint-Seine, 1958

Rogerella is a small pouch-shaped boring (a type of trace fossil) with a slit-like aperture currently produced by acrothoracican barnacles. These crustaceans extrude their legs upwards through the opening for filter-feeding. They are known in the fossil record as borings in carbonate substrates (shells and hardgrounds) from the Devonian to the Recent.

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