Ichnofossils

Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955

Taxon description

Knaust, 2018a

Remark. T. rectus has been the most common ichnospecies of Teichichnus since the early Cambrian (e.g.Orłowski, 1989; Pacześna, 1996; McIlroy and Brasier, 2017) and has a global record throughout the Phanerozoic (Fig.7,8).Although also known from the Holocene (Wetzel, 1981; Corner and Fjalstad, 1993; Werner, 2002), noconclusion about its trace makers has been reached and producers of several phyla are likely in light of its long age range (Häntzschel, 1975)-

Mikuláš et al., 2013

Irregularly arranged, densely crowded, mutually cross-cutting spreiten-structures resembling troughs filled up in a vertical plane. These are preserved in full reliefs, partly weathered-out, on an upper bedding plane of the sandstone slab. The troughs are straight; preserved parts are 1–7 cm long and ca 4 mm wide. The trace is composed usually of a small number (2–4) of troughs. In vertical plane, all traces probably show a shape of a very broad “U” letter.

Frey & Bromley, 1985

Diagnosis Long, straight, planar to slightly irregular, retrusive spreiten structures oriented at various angles with respect to bedding.

Howard & Frey, 1984

Diagnosis Vertical bladelike spreiten structures consisting of several closely concentric, horizontal or inclined, longitudinally nested individual burrows adjoining single parent tninks; burrows within the spreite are displaced upward (retrusive).

Type specimen data
: University of Tübingen l e 1071/22, , , holotype is missing
Synonymy list
1955     Teichichnus rectus — Seilacher, pp. 378, fig. 24.1
1965     large teichichnian burroe — Martinsson, fig. 21,22,23
1974     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Fürsich, pp. 40-41, fig. Fig.27b; 33
1979     Teichichnus cf. rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Pickerill & Forbes, pp. 2032, fig. 9C,d
1984     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Pickerill et al., pp. 425, fig. 6F
1984     Teichichnus pescadorensis — Stanton & Dodd, pp. 220, fig. 31.1
1984     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Howard & Frey, pp. 211, fig. 21
1985     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Frey & Howard, pp. 391, fig. 5.15, 16.4; 19.6; 21
1985     Teichichnus ovillus — Legg, pp. 161, fig. 4A
1985     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Frey & Bromley, pp. 812, fig. 7B, 16A-C, 8C
1989     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Orłowski, pp. 222, fig. 17:1-4
1996     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher 1955 — Nielsen et al., pp. 125, fig. Fig 11A.B
1996     Teichichnus multilineatus — Pacześna, pp. 62, fig. 20:3
1996     Rejkovicichnus necrofilus — Mikuláš et al., pp. 121, fig. 1:1,3
2000     Teichichnus multiplex — Mikuláš, pp. 21, fig. 11:3
2008     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Carmona et al., pp. 110, fig. 8.2-8.3
2008     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Mørk & Bromley, pp. 342
2010     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Loughlin & Hillier, pp. 246
2013     Siphonichnus sursumdeorsum — Zonneveld & Gingras, pp. 250, fig. 2B, C
2013     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Mikuláš et al., pp. 397, fig. 3I
2018     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Strachacz et al., fig. 6C, D
2018     Teichichnus rectus Seilacher, 1955 — Knaust, pp. 389
2018     Teichichnus rectus — Dorador et al., pp. 18, fig. 3I
Selection of related publications
Vinn, O., Toom, U. 2018. First description of rare Teichichnus burrows from carbonate rocks of the Lower Paleozoic of Estonia. Carnets de Géologie 18, 13, 305-312. DOI:10.4267/2042/68550
Mikuláš, R., Meškis, S., Ivanov, A., Lukševičs, E., Zupinš, I., Stinkulis, G. 2013. A rich ichnofossil assemblage from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) deposits at Andoma Hill, Onega Lake, Russia. Bulletin of Geosciences 88, 2, 389-400. DOI:10.3140/bull.geosci.1358
Nielsen, J. K., Hansen, K. S., Simonsen, L. 1996. Sedimentology and ichnology of the Robbedale Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Bornholm, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 43, 2, 115-131. DOI:10.37570/bgsd-1996-43-12
References based on distribution