Current taxon is already existed. See initial taxon Teichichnus rectus
Taxon ID: 15464 | 2017-08-26 / 2019-02-05
Fossil group: Ichnofossils
Belongs to: Teichichnus
1 Other version of taxon: Teichichnus rectus
Taxon description
Legg, 1985
Diagnosis. Vertical wall like structures straight to slightly sinuous unbranched with protrusive or retrusive spreite.
Description. The specimens are vertical straight to slightly sinuous unbranched and wall like. They are 2.4 to 4.0 crn wide and 2.0 to 5.8 cm deep and collected specimens are up to 23 cm long although material examined in the field was up to 80 crn long. Internal spreite are reflected in laminations where they meet the outside wall. Spreite are both protrusive and retrusive.
Jensen, 1997
Description. - Straight to gently curved stacked guttershaped laminae forming low wall-like structures.
Type specimen data
holotype : Institute of Geological Sciences, London IGS/FOR 4147 , , Middle Cambrian (old nomenclature) , Oville sandstones and Shales, Cantabrian Mountains, North Spain
Synonymy list
1965 Large teichichnian burrows — Martinson , fig. 21-23
1985 Teichichnus ovillus n. ichnosp. — Legg , pp. 161 , fig. 4A
1997 Teichichnus ovillus Legg, 1985 — Jensen , pp. 90 , fig. 61
2018 Teichichnus rectus — Knaust
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Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Soft-sediment trace fossils | |
Genus | Teichichnus |
Species | duplex |
multilineatus | |
multiplex | |
ovillus | |
palmatus | |
patens | |
rectus | |
sigmoidalis | |
zigzag |