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
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Classification
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Coprolites
Invertebrate coprolites
FamilyCoprulidae
GenusCoprulus
Speciesbacilliformis
oblongus