Species

Biformites insolitus Linck, 1949

Taxon description

Knaust & Neuman, 2016

Diagnosis: Biformiteswith delicate, ideally bisymmetrically ar-ranged, transverse (elongate, or polygonal to round) protuberances (emended from Schlirf, 2012).

Schlirf, 2005

Diagnosis: Narrow, vermiform, slightly tapering, horizontal, straight to curved structures with delicate, ideally bisymmetrically arranged, perpendicular elongate, or polygonal to round, positive or negative protuberances. Preserved as positive hyporeliefs.

Chamberlain, 1971

Description.-An endogenic and intergenic burrow preserved as a rounded convex hyporelief on the sole of thin bedded sandstones. Tubular sand and mud packed burrow 7 mm across and 10 to 20 mm long with a smooth, conical terminus. Base of terminal cone reduced approximately 1 mm less than remainder of burrow. Tip of cone also reduced slightly. Surface of remainder of burrow transversely ringed with rounded to subrounded ridges, 1 to 2 mm wide. Semiradial arrangement of burrows common.

Synonymy list
1949     Biformites insolitus — Linck , pp. 40, fig. 1-2
1962     Biformites insolitus — Häntzschel , pp. W186, fig. 114(la,b)
1971     Biformites insolitus Linck, 1949 — Chamberlain , pp. 234, fig. 31:16-18. Text-fig. 7K,L,O
2012     Biformites insolitus Linck, 1949 — Schlirf , pp. 193, fig. 8B, 9A-C; 10A-E
2016     Biformites insolitus Linck, 1949 — Knaust & Neumann , pp. 118
Classification
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Soft-sediment trace fossils
OrderBiformitidae
GenusBiformites
Speciesinsolitus
zhadaensis