Species

Rhizocorallium commune Schmid, 1876

Taxon description

Knaust, 2013

Emended diagnosis: Unbranched, rarely branched burrows with a preferred subhorizontal orientation. The burrows are elongate, band-like, straight or winding, and may have subparallel longitudinal scratches on the wall. Faecal pellets (Coprulus isp.) are common within the actively filled spreite and the marginal tube.

Synonymy list

1843 Fucoides auriformis — Hall , pp. 47, fig. Pl.1:2

1876 Rhizocorallium commune n. sp. — Schmid , pp. 5,14,17

1876 Lithochela problematica Guemb — Gümbel , pp. 411

1876 Rhizocorallium commune n. sp. — Schmid , pp. 5, 14, 17

1904 Myelophycus curvatum — Ulrich , pp. 145-146, fig. Pl. 13:2

1905 Cancellophycus — Fliche , pp. 20-21, fig. Pl.1:1

1929 Cavernaecola bärtlingi — Bentz , fig. Figs 1,2, Pl. 74

1930 Rhizocorallium devonicum nov. sp. — Hecker , pp. 152-153,156, fig. XVI 1-2

1930 Rhizocorallium devonicum nov. sp — Hecker , pp. 152-153, fig. Pl.16:1-2

1941 Upsiloides permiana, gen. et sp. nov. — Byrne and Branson , pp. 261, fig. Fig. 1-6

Selection of related publications

Clausen, C. K., Vilhjálmsson, M. 1986. Substrate control of lower Cambrian trace fossils from Bornholm, Denmark. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 56, 1-2, 51-68. Elsevier BV. DOI:10.1016/0031-0182(86)90107-0

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Ichnofossil group	Ichnofossils
	Bioturbation trace fossils
Family	Rhizocoralliidae
Genus	Rhizocorallium
Species	commune
	irregulare
	jenense

References based on distribution

Clausen & Vilhjálmsson, 1986 Broens Odde outcrop, Bornholm Lower Cambrian (old nomenclature)