 | 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 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
2013
Coprulus oblongus Mayer, 1952 — Knaust, pp. 7, fig. 8A
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