Species

Rusophycus eutendorfensis (Linck, 1942)

Taxon description

Jensen, 1997

Description. - Small bilobate burrows, buclde- or heartshaped, with steep lateral borders ( Fig. 32B ) . Lobes mostly smooth and separated by a dis tinet median furrow. Fine transverse or gently inclined striation with ridges fraetions of a millimetre (in one speeimen measured as O . lmm) apart are oeeasionally seen. Dimensions o f a prominent speeimen: length 4 mm, width 2.4 mm, depth 1 .8 mm, but most speeimens are smaller. May be arranged in loose, straight to somewhat winding ehains of burrows, and pass in to Cruziana tenelIa.

Synonymy list
1942     Isopodichnus eutendorfensis — Linck , pp. 240, fig. 8
1979     Rusophycus eutendorfensis — Bromley & Asgaard , pp. 64-66, fig. 17B
1996     Rusophycus eutendorfensis (Linck, 1942) — Keighley & Pickerill , pp. 279, fig. 1G
1997     Rusophycus eutendorfensis (Linck, 1942) — Jessen , pp. 87, fig. 3 1 , 32B, 67C
2001     Rusophycus eutendorfensis (Linck, 1942) — Schlirf et al. , pp. 78