Species
Tremichnus excavatus (Donovan et Jagt, 2003)
Type specimen data
holotype: Natural History Museum London ; NHMM MK 4689; Vroenhoven-Riemst; Maastrichtian
Reference:
Donovan, S. K., Jagt, J. W. M. 2003. Oichnus Bromley Borings in the Irregular Echinoid Hemipneustes Agassiz from the Type Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous, The Netherlands and Belgium). pp. 67–74. DOI:10.1080/10420940190034139
Taxon description
Pokorný & Štofik, 2017
Diagnosis Sedilichnus cf. excavatus (Donovan and Jagt, 2002): Circular to elliptical, nonpenetrative Sedilichnus, with a broad, high, raised central boss or pedestal. Aperture of boring may or may not be overhanging; walls are concave or V-shaped (Blissett and Pickerill,2007; and Zonneveld and Gingras, 2014).
Blissett & Pickerill, 2007
Diagnosis – (After Blissett & Pickerill, 2003c, p. 223.) “Circular to elliptical, nonpenetrative Oichnus, almost invariably with a broad, high, raised central boss. Aperture of boring may or may not be overhanging, but walls typically concave and may be V-shaped.”
Donovan & Jagt, 2003
Diagnosis: Circular to elliptical, nonpenetrative Oichnus, almost invariably with a broad, high, raised central boss. Aperture of boring overhanging and walls concave.
Synonymy list
2019 Tremichnus excavatus (Donovan & Jagt, 2002) — Wisshak, Knaust & Bertling , pp. 16
Selection of related publications
Blissett, D. J., Pickerill, R. K. 2007. Systematic ichnology of microborings from the Cenozoic White Limestone Group, Jamaica, West Indies. Scripta Geologica 134, 77-108.
Donovan, S. K., Jagt, J. W. M. 2003. Oichnus Bromley Borings in the Irregular Echinoid Hemipneustes Agassiz from the Type Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous, The Netherlands and Belgium). Ichnos 9, 1-2, 67–74. DOI:10.1080/10420940190034139
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Centrichnidae |
| Genus | Tremichnus |
| Species | cysticus |
| excavatus | |
| minutus | |
| paraboloides | |
| puteolus |
References based on distribution
- Donovan & Jagt, 2003 Vroenhoven-Riemst Maastrichtian
- Blissett & Pickerill, 2007 Riverhead old bauxite quarry Eocene