Taxon description
Hofmann, 1983
Diagnosis Rectilinear to curvilinear objects along bedding planes, of millimetric width and centimetric length, composed of ornamented central axis of iron oxide, and surrounded by a smooth, generally thick, uniformly wide pelitic envelope; contact between axis and envelope has fine, uniform, submillimetric sculpture ranging from striated to verrucose; envelope distinguished from the coarser, poorly sorted sediment matrix by predominance of well sorted, fine-grained argillaceous material.
Buckman, 1995
Internal burrow parallel striae, & Fe core
Synonymy list
1983 Palaeophycus ferrovittatus n. sp. — Hofmann , pp. 1513-1517 , fig. Figs. 2, 3, 4 A-C
1995 Palaeophycus ferrovittatus Hofmann, 1983 — Buckman , pp. 132
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Soft-sediment trace fossils | |
Genus | Palaeophycus |
Species | acicula |
alternatus | |
bolbitermilus | |
crenulatus | |
ferrovittatus | |
gracilis | |
striatus | |
sulcatus | |
tubularis | |
vulgaris |