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 |
References based on distribution
- Fürsich et al., 1994 Isle of Portland Upper Jurassic