Family
Dendrinidae Bromley, Wisshak, Glaub et Botquelen, 2007
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Diagnosis: Originally defned as ‘microborings having a rosetted or incompletely rosetted (i.e., fan-shaped) morphology, with or without a central or marginal main chamber’, slightly revised here to: dendritic or rosetted to fan-shaped borings, with or without a central or marginal main chamber.
Ethological category: Domichnia (dwelling traces), fodinichnia? (combined dwelling and feeding traces)
Selection of related publications
Mergl, M. 2020. Dendritic microborings in brachiopod shells from the Silurian of the Barrandian area, Czech Republic. Bulletin of Geosciences 319-332. DOI:10.3140/bull.geosci.1793
Elias, R. J., Lee, D-J. 1993. Microborings and growth in Late Ordovician Halysitids and other corals. Journal of Paleontology 67, 6, 922-934. DOI:10.1017/S0022336000025221
Elias, R. J. 1980. Borings in solitary rugose corals of the Selkirk Member, Red River Formation (late Middle or Upper Ordovician), souther Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17, 2, 272-277. DOI:10.1139/e80-023
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