Species

Artharia antiquata Billings, 1872

Taxon description

Fillion & Pickerill, 1984

Diagnosis, emended. Dumb-bell shaped trace preserved on lower surfaces as positive casts, composed of a shallower stem con- necting two wider and more deeply im- pressed terminations. Terminations com- monly both hemispherical, but heart, dogbone or arrowhead shapes and in various combi- nations also possible. Terminations do not extend vertically upward into overlying sed- iment. Thus, vertical tubes and spreite are absent.

Synonymy list
1872     Artharia antiquata — Billings , pp. 467, fig. 2
1984     Artharia antiquata Billings, 1872 — Fillon & Pickerill , pp. 691, fig. 5A-L
1998     Artharia antiquata Billings, 1872 — Stafford et al. , pp. 6, fig. 1:2
Classification
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Bioturbation trace fossils
GenusArtharia
Speciesantiquata