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
Knaust, D., Schnick, H. 2024. Trace fossils from the Maastrichtian chalk of the Isle of Rügen, north-east Germany. Geologie en Mijnbouw 103, DOI:10.1017/njg.2024.6
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
Wisshak, M. 2017. Taming an ichnotaxonomical Pandora's box: revision of dendritic and rosetted microborings (ichnofamily: Dendrinidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 390, 1-99. DOI:10.5852/ejt.2017.390
Tavernier, A., Campbell, S. E., Golubić, S. 1992. A complex marine shallow-water boring trace: Dendrorete balani n. ichnogen. et ichnospec.. Lethaia 25, 3, 303-310. DOI:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1992.tb01399.x
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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