Species
Gastrochaenolites cluniformis Kelly et Bromley, 1984
Taxon description
El-Hedeny & El-Sabbagh, 2018
Description: Simple, smooth and unlined clavate-shaped borings; straight to slightly curved, bilobate at the base and circular to ovate at the aperture. The maximum diameter is located near the centre of the main chamber. The neck and aperture are rounded to oval in cross-section. The boring is 8‒44 mm long and 3‒18 mm wide. Boring walls often ornamented with coral xenoglyph sculptures.
Synonymy list
1984 Gastrochaenolites cluniformis ichnosp. nov. — Kelly & Bromley , pp. 799, fig. text-figs 3D, 5
2004 Gastrochaenolites cluniformis Kelly & Bromley, 1984 — Blissett & Pickerill , pp. 180, fig. 6/4; &
2018 Gastrochaenolites cluniformis Kelly and Bromley, 1984 — El-Hedeny & El-Sabbagh , pp. 9, fig. Fig. 9A, D
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioerosional trace fossils | |
Family | Gastrochaenolitidae |
Genus | Gastrochaenolites |
Species | ampullatus |
anauchen | |
cluniformis | |
cor | |
dijugus | |
hospitium | |
japonicus | |
lapidicus | |
oelandicus | |
orbicularis | |
ornatus | |
pickerilli | |
raigadensis | |
torpedo | |
turbinatus | |
vivus |