Species
Trypanites solitarius (Hagenow, 1840)
Taxon description
Bromley, 1972
D i a g n o s i s: Simple, more or less cylindrical Trypanites with straight or gently curving course generally following close beneath the substrate surface. Diameter ca. 1 mm, length up to ca. 3 cm.
Blissett & Pickerill, 2007
Diagnosis. (Emended after Bromley 1972, p. 96.) Simple, more or less cylindrical Trypanites with straight or gently curving course generally following close beneath the substrate surface.
Description. Essentially cylindrical, straight to curved borings oriented parallel to the substrate surfaces. Rare examples exhibit single apertural openings. The dimensions of each specimen vary with lengths ranging from 0·9-6·0 mm and diameters ranging from 60-500 μm. The distal portions taper to a blind end
Synonymy list
1840 Talpinia solitaria — Hagenow , pp. 671
1849 Talpinia solitaria — Quenstedt , pp. 470, fig. 30:37
1851 Talpinia solitaria — Morris , pp. 87, fig. 4:6a
1885 Talpinia solitaria — Quensdedt , pp. 496, fig. 38:39
1932 Clionoides thomasi — Fenton & Fenton
1937 Nygmites solitarius Hagenow — Mägdefrau , pp. 56
1968 Conchifora zylindriformis — Müller
1972 Trypanites solitarius (Hagenow) — Bromley , fig. 95
1977 Spiracavites vermicularis — Chiplonkar & Ghare
1977 Spiracavites radialis — Chiplonkar & Ghare
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Trypanitidae |
| Genus | Trypanites |
| Species | fimbriatus |
| fosteryeomani | |
| heckeri | |
| keilaensis | |
| mobilis | |
| solitarius | |
| sozialis | |
| weisei |