Species

Palaeosabella prisca (McCoy, 1855)

Taxon description

Villas et al., 2021

Original description: Straight to curved shell-borings that are circular in cross-section with a usual diameter of about 1 mm. Diagnosis: Long, unbranched, tubular or cylindro-clavate macroboring that expands distally as an acute cone.

Synonymy list
1855     Vioa prisca — McCoy , pp. 260, fig. 1B:1,1a
1908     Gitonia sipho — Clarke
1921     Palaeosabella prisca — Clarke , pp. 91, fig. 77-83
1952     Specus fimbriatus — Stephenson
1953     Clionolithes implicatus n. sp. — Hyde , pp. 214, fig. 1:1-4
1965     Ostreoblabe perforans n. g. n. sp. — Voigt , pp. 169, fig. 25:1-4; 26:1, 3, 4
1987     Trypanites fimbriatus (Stephenson, 1952) — Bromley & D'Alessandro , pp. 405, fig. 42:5
2016     Vermiforichnus clarkei Cameron, 1969 — Hanken, Uchman, Nielsen, Olaussen, Eggebø & Steinsland , pp. 208, fig. 12C-E
2021     Palaeosabella prisca (McCoy, 1855) — Villas, Mayoral, Santos, Colmenar & Gutiérrez-Marco, , fig. 1A-F; 2; 3A-F; 4C,D
2023     Palaeosabella prisca — Vinn. Ernast, Wilson, Tinn, Isakar & Toom , fig. 2.2
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
Klassificering
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Bioerosional trace fossils
FamilyGastrochaenolitidae
GenusPalaeosabella
Speciesarrogarum
prisca
References based on distribution