Species

Coprulus oblongus Mayer, 1952

Taxon description

Knaust, 2008

Revised diagnosis: Oblong faecal pellets in form of isolated, loose pills with a cylindrical to oval shape, concave rounded ends and circular cross section. Their surface is smooth, and internally they consist of finegrained, homogeneous sediment.The length/width-ratio commonly lies between 1.5 and 2.0

Original diagnosis: Uniform excrement in pill-form with long-oval shape, length up to 1.5 mm, width up to 0.8 mm, washed into or deposited within worm tubes (translated from MAYER 1952:378).

Synonymy list

1952 Coprulus oblongus n. sp — Mayer , pp. 378, fig. 1

1952 Coprulus sphaeroideus n. sp. — Mayer , pp. 265, fig. 27:1-4

1954 Coprulus sphaeroideus — Mayer , pp. 224, fig. 3:17a,c

1954 Coprulus oblongus Mayer — Mayer , pp. 228, fig. 17b

1954 Coprulus oblongus Mayer — Mayer , pp. 427, fig. 1-2

1955 Coprulus oblongus Mayer — Mayer , pp. 531, fig. 1-5

1955 Coprulus oblongus Mayer — Mayer , pp. 22

1958 Coprulus oblongus Mayer — Mayer , pp. 315, fig. 1

1970 Tibikoia fudoensis n. gen. et n. sp — Hatai et al. , pp. 8, fig. 1

1979 Tibikoia sanctacrucensis ichnosp, n. — Baluk & Radwanski , pp. 342, fig. fig. 3; pl 1:1-8

Selection of related publications

Toom, U., Vinn, O., Isakar, M., Madison, A., Hints, O. 2020. Small faecal pellets in Ordovician shelly fossils from Estonia, Baltoscandia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 69, 1, 1-19. DOI:10.3176/earth.2020.01

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Ichnofossil group	Ichnofossils
	Coprolites
	Invertebrate coprolites
Family	Coprulidae
Genus	Coprulus
Species	bacilliformis
	oblongus