Species

Curvolithus simplex Buatois, Mángano, Mikuláš et Maples, 1998

Taxon description

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.

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).

Buatois et al., 1998a

Diagnosis.—Curvolithus with a smooth, trilobate upper surface and a smooth, unilobate to trilobate, concave or convex lower surface.

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