Genus
Dictyoporus Mägdefrau, 1937
Taxon description
Wisshak, 2017
Emended diagnosis. Radiating, reticulate system of etched channels or prostrate tubular borings at or immediately beneath the surface of calcareous substrates. High degree of anastomosis, leaving only a few peripheral branches blind ending.
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.75. Dendritic and rosetted borings.
Knaust, 2012a
Branched, network.
Selection of related publications
Tavernier, A., Campbell, S. E., Golubić, S. 1992. A complex marine shallow-water boring trace: Dendrorete balani n. ichnogen. et ichnospec.. Lethaia 25, 3, 303-310. DOI:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1992.tb01399.x
Elias, R. J. 1980. Borings in solitary rugose corals of the Selkirk Member, Red River Formation (late Middle or Upper Ordovician), souther Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17, 2, 272-277. DOI:10.1139/e80-023
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Dendrinidae |
| Genus | Abeliella |
| Antodendrina | |
| Calcideletrix | |
| Clionolithes | |
| Dendrina | |
| Dictyoporus | |
| Species | balani |
| garsonensis | |
| nodosus | |
| Genus | Neodendrina |
| Nododendrina | |
| Pyrodendrina | |
| Rhopalondendrina |