Genus

Calcideletrix Mägdefrau, 1937

Taxon description

Wisshak et al., 2019b

Microboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker invertebrate?

Buatois et al., 2017

Category of architectural design: 2.75. Dendritic and rosetted borings.

Knaust, 2012a

Branched, network.

Wisshak, 2017

Emended diagnosis. Dendritic boring system in calcareous skeletal substrates with a series of main axes that give the trace a lobed appearance. Inner branches may anastomose or leave blind-ending branches. Trace closely prostrate and with many contacts to the substrate surface.

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