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
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