Species

Rhizocorallium jenense Zenker, 1836

Taxon description

Knaust, 2013

Unbranched burrows with varying oblique orientation. The short to elongate, straight, bow- or U-shaped excavations have a system of subparallel or net-like scratches on the wall, and are open or passively filled.

Synonymy list
1836     Rhizocorallium jenense — Zenker , pp. 219-220
1974     Rhizocorallium jenense Zenker 1836 — Fürsich , pp. 23, fig. Fig. 2
1974     Rhizocorallium jenense Zenker 1836 — Fürsich , pp. 18, fig. fig. 14a
1975     Rhizocorallium jenense Zenker 1836 — Fürsich , pp. 155, fig. figs. 3, 16
1985     Rhizocorallium cf. R. jenense Zenker, 1836 — Eagar et al. , pp. 143, fig. pl. 14, fig. B-E
1985     short horizontal Rhizocorallium — Howard & Singh , fig. fig. 5d
1986     Rhizocorallium jenense Zenker, 1836 — Koch Clausen & Vilhjálmsson , pp. 60, fig. Pl. 2 fig. C.
1989     Rhizocorallium jenense Zenker, 1836 — Orłowski , pp. 223, fig. 18:3,4
1994     Rhizocorallium jenense Zenker 1836 — Buckman , pp. 135
1997     Rhizocorallium jenense Zenker, 1836 — Jensen , pp. 78, fig. fig. 6A-B
Classification
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Soft-sediment trace fossils
FamilyRhizocoralliidae
GenusRhizocorallium
Speciescommune
irregulare
jenense