Genus
Spirichnus Fürsich, Palmer et Goodyear, 1994
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Macroboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker invertebrate
Fürsich et al., 1994
Diagnosis: Spirally-coiled cylindrical spiral borings.
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.73. Spiral borings.
Knaust, 2012a
Branched, spiral.
Fürsich et al., 1994
Diagnosis. Cylindrical, irregularly spirally-coiled borings of 0.5mm in diameter, branching at highly irregular intervals.
Selection of related publications
Fürsich, F. T., Palmer, T. J., Goodyear, K. L. 1994. Growth and disintegration of bivalve-dominated patch reefs in the Upper Jurassic of southern England. Palaeontology 37, 1, 131-171.
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioerosional trace fossils | |
Family | Trypanitidae |
Genus | Anobichnium |
Australocerambyx | |
Carporichnus | |
Eocavum | |
Helicotaphrichnus | |
Linckichnus | |
Osprioneides | |
Paleobuprestis | |
Pecinolites | |
Spirichnus | |
Species | contentus |
spiralis | |
vacillarum | |
Genus | Stipitichnus |
Trypanites | |
Tubulohyalichnus |