Species
Curvolithus simplex Buatois, Mángano, Mikuláš et Maples, 1998
Taxon description
Buatois et al., 1998a
Diagnosis.—Curvolithus with a smooth, trilobate upper surface and a smooth, unilobate to trilobate, concave or convex lower surface.
Krobicki & Uchman, 2003
Diagnosis: Curvolithus with a smooth, trilobate upper surface and a smooth, unilobate or trilobate, concave or convex lower surface (after Buatois et al. 1998).
Hanken et al., 2016
This is an endichnial trilobate band-like curved structure, 6–7 mm wide, seen from below. Its central, wider part, 3 mm wide, is slightly convex and elevated, or slightly concave and depressed. It is bordered by two side semicircular bevels that are 1.5–2.0 mm wide.
Synonymy list
2003 Curvolithus simplex Buatois, Mángano, Mikuláš, and Maples, 1998 — Krobicki & Uchman , pp. 177, fig. 3
2016 Curvolithus simplex Buatois, Mángano, Mikuláš, and Maples, 1998 — Hanken et al. , pp. 200, fig. 5E
2018 Curvolithus simplex Buatois etal. 1998 — Hovikoski et al. , pp. 8C
Selection of related publications
Hanken, N.-M., Uchman, A., Nielsen, J. K., Olaussen, S., Eggebø, T., Steinsland, R. 2016. Late Ordovician trace fossils from offshore to shallow water mixed siliciclastic and carbonate facies in the Ringerike Area, Oslo Region, Norway. Ichnos 23, 3-4, 189-221. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2016.1199427
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioturbation trace fossils | |
| Genus | Curvolithus |
| Species | multiplex |
| simplex |
References based on distribution
- Hanken et al., 2016 Store Svartøya Upper Ordovician