Species

Protovirgularia dichotoma McCoy, 1850

Taxon description

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

Type specimen data

lectotype : SM A45582, ,

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

1960 Tripiograpsus nereitarum (Richter) — Pfeiffer , pp. 36 , fig. 7a

1961 Protovirgularia nereitarum (Richter) — Volk , pp. 69-75 , fig. 1, 2

1962 Protovirgularia dichotoma M'Coy, 1850 — Häntzschel , pp. W209 , fig. 130, 2a, b

1967 Crossopodia dichotoma Bandel, 1967 — Bandel , pp. 5-6 , fig. 3:4,7

1967 Pelecypodichnus ornatus Bandel, 1967 — Bandel , pp. 8-9 , fig. 5:1

1968 Protovirgularia nereitarum (Reinh. Richter 1853) — Pfeiffer , pp. 667 , fig. 1:6-8

1970 Protovirgularia mongraensis — Chiplonkar & Badve , pp. 2 , fig. 1

1972 Protovirgularia mongraensis Chiplonkar and Badve, 1970 — Chiplonkar & Badve , pp. 2 , fig. 1

1972 Arthropodichnus jacquetensis Greiner, 1972 — Greiner , pp. 1172-1176 , fig. 1-8, 10

1975 Protovirgularia nereitarum (Richter) — Häntzschel , pp. w97-98 , fig. 61, 2a, 2b

1982 Protovirgularia dichotoma M'Coy 1850 — Benton , pp. 76-77 , fig. 7a-c

1982 Protovirgularia dichotoma M'Coy 1850 — Benton , pp. 117 , fig. 2, 5L, 6T

1994 Protovirgularia dichotoma M'Coy 1850 — Han & Pickerill , pp. 204-211 , fig. 2-5

1998 Protovirgularia dichotoma McCoy, 1850 — Uchman , pp. 164

2005 Protovirgularia dichotoma McCoy, 1850 — Uchman et al. , pp. 115 , fig. 8

2018 Protovirgularia dichotoma McCoy, 1850 — Hammersburg et al. , pp. 32 , fig. Fig. 17.1

2021 Protovirgularia dichotoma M’Coy, 1850 — Knaust , pp. 4

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