Species

Coprulus bacilliformis Mayer, 1955

Taxon description

Mayer, 1955

Diagnose: Als Kotpillen gedeutete stäbchenförmige, weißliehe, struktur- und skulpturlose, bis nahezu 3 mm lange und 0,5 mm breiter auf (angewitterten) Schichtflächen ung Bruchflächen (Anschliffen). 

Diagnosis: Interpreted as fecal pellets; rod-shaped, whitish, structure and sculptureless, up to almost 3 mm long and 0.5 mm wide; on (weathered) bed surfaces and natural breakage surfaces (polished). Translation U. Toom & B. Kröger.

Synonymy list
2013     Coprulus bacilliformis Mayer, 1955 — Knaust , pp. 7, fig. 8B
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