Species
Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887
Taxon description
Uchman, 2007a
Note. Menisci of T. serpentinum Heer (1877) are much more widely spaced.
Chen, Z.-Q. et al., 2012
Taenidium is indicated by unlined, straight or slightly curved to sinuous burrows that contain segmented filling (Figs. 6D, H–K, 8 F, 11B). Burrows also have well-spaced arcuate menisci but lack walls. The annular ornamentation is rather pronounced and the burrow may be slightly flanged at one end. These traces have a width of 3–4mm and length up to 24 mm with partitioned packeting. All features observed here agree with the type ichnospecies T.serpentinum Heer.
Synonymy list
1877 Taenidium serpentinum — Heer , pp. 117 , fig. 45:9; 10B
1971 Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887 — Chamberlain , pp. 241 , fig. 32:10
1987 Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887 — DAlessandro & Bromley , pp. 752 , fig. text fig. 7
1990 Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1877 — Dam , pp. 142 , fig. 11A
1994 Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887 — Keighley & Pickerill , pp. 324
2012 Taenidium Heer — Chen et al. , fig. 11B
2018 Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887 — Fürsich et al. , pp. 23 , fig. 9C-E
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Soft-sediment trace fossils | |
| Genus | Taenidium |
| Species | barretti |
| bowni | |
| cameroensis | |
| crassum | |
| crinoidiforme | |
| diesingi | |
| irregulare | |
| maeandriformis | |
| planicostatum | |
| recurvum | |
| serpentinum |