Species

Protovirgularia dichotoma McCoy, 1850

Taxon description

Diagnosis.—Straight, bilobate trails with medial furrow and paired, convex, chevronlike, wedge-shaped projections oblique from furrow.

Synonymy list

1850 Protovirgularia dichotoma — McCoy , pp. 272

1851 Protovirgularia dichotoma McCoy — McCoy , pp. 10, fig. Pl. 1. B. figs. 11 and 12

1853 Cladograpsus nereitarum — Richter , pp. 450, fig. 12:1,2

1855 ?Protovirgularia dichotoma M'Coy — Harkness , pp. 475

1855 Protovirgularia dichotoma McCoy — Murchison & Morris , pp. 413

1870 Protovirgularia Harknessi — Lapworth , pp. 53-54

1871 Tripiograpsus Nereitarum (Richter) — Richter , pp. 251-252, fig. 5:10-13

1879 Provirgularia(l) Nereitarum (Tripiograpsus Nereitam/mRicht.) — Gümbel , pp. 469, fig. 11, 12

1931 Protovirgularia nereitarum (Richter) — Hundt , pp. 35, 48

1958 Protovirgularia dichotoma M'Coy — Häntschel , pp. 84, fig. 5

Selection of related publications

Uchman, A., Hanken, N.-M., Binns, R. 2005. Ordovician Bathyal Trace Fossils From Metasiliciclastics in Central Norway and Their Sedimentological and Paleogeographical Implications. Ichnos 12, 2, 105-133. DOI:10.1080/10420940590914534

Classification

References based on distribution