Ichnofossils
Species

Ophiomorpha annulata (Ksiązkiewicz, 1977)

Taxon description

Leszczyński, 2003

Diagnosis: Mainly horizontal or subhorizontal, cylindrical, rarely branched, covered with elongate pellets arranged perpendicularly to the long axis of burrow. Sharp angles prevail at branching points. Swellings are common. In flysch deposits, small hypichnial, smooth and straight forms usually 2-6 mm in diameter, are common (Uchman, 1995).

Howard & Frey, 1984

Diagnosis Burrow walls consisting of evenly spaced, transverse rows of elliptical pellets; end to end pellets form more or less continuous rings or annulations around burrowsegments.

Synonymy list
1977     Arthrophycus annulatus n. isp. — Ksiązkiewicz , pp. 68 , fig. 2.2, text fig. 9e
1982     Ophiomorpha annulata — Frey & Howard , fig. 2a, 4b
1984     Ophiomorpha annulata (Ksiazkiewicz, 1977) — Howard & Frey , pp. 205
1985     Ophiomorpha annulata (Ksiazkiewicz, 1977) — Frey & Howard , pp. 379 , fig. 5.1-5.4; 10.13; 11.1; 16.1; 16.6
1998     Ophiomorpha annulata — Uchman , pp. 125 , fig. 24
2001     Ophiomorpha annulata (Ksiazkiewicz, 1977) — Uchman , pp. 12
2003     Ophiomorpha ? annulata (Ksiązkiewicz 1977) — Leszczyński , pp. 114 , fig. 24
Classification