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
Type specimen data
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
1977 Spiracavites marginata — Chiplonkar & Ghare
1982 Clionoides utaturensis — Ghare
1984 Vermiforichnus clarkei — Fillion & Pickerill , pp. 32 , fig. 11a,d
1987 Trypanites solitarius — Bromley & DAlessandro , pp. 406 , fig. 40:4; 41:1,2; 46:4; 47:2; text fig. 16A
1988 Trypanites solitarius — Pleydell & Jones , fig. 9.1
1991 Trypanites solitaruis — Mángano & Buatois , pp. 225 , fig. 6
2007 Trypanites solitarius (Hagenow, 1840) — Blisset & Pickerill , pp. 95 , fig. 5:3
2008 Trypanites solitarius — Zamora et al. , fig. 3.3; 4
2016 Trypanites solitarius (Hagenow 1840) — Abdel-Fattah, & Assal , pp. 406
2017 Trypanites solitarius — Wisshak et al, , pp. 1a, 6
2017 Trypanites solitarius — Uchman, Kleemann 6 Rattazzi , pp. 46 , fig. 8D, E
2017 Trypanites solitarius — Wisshak et al. , pp. 127-135 , fig. 1. 2
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioerosional trace fossils | |
Family | Trypanitidae |
Genus | Trypanites |
Species | fimbriatus |
fosteryeomani | |
heckeri | |
keilaensis | |
mobilis | |
solitarius | |
sozialis | |
weisei |