Genus
Beaconites Vialov, 1962
Taxon description
Keighley & Pickerill, 1994a
Emended diagnosis. Small, cylindrical, unbranched, walled, meniscate burrow. Straight or sinuous, horizontal or more rarely inclined or vertical. Weakly to strongly arcuate meniscate pacets or segments enclosed by distinct, smooth and unornamented burrow linings.
Selection of related publications
Knaust, D. 2004. Cambro-Ordovician trace fossils from the SW-Norwegian Caledonides. Geological Journal 39, 1, 1-24. DOI:10.1002/gj.941
Dam, G., Andreasen, F. 1990. High-energy ephemeral stream deltas; an example from the Upper Silurian Holmestrand Formation of the Oslo Region, Norway. Sedimentary Geology 66, 3-4, 197-225. Elsevier BV. DOI:10.1016/0037-0738(90)90060-7
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Classification
References based on distribution
- Dam & Andreasen, 1990 upper Silurian