Species
Lophoctenium comosum Richter, 1851
Taxon description
Chamberlain, 1971
Description.-Intergenic epirelief. Large rooster tails more than 100 mm across with round outside gallery usually not seen. Spreite concentric, curved, 5 to 6 mm wide, and asymmetric ridge with gentle slope on outside face. Small, angular, obliquotransverse ridges of sand alternate with furrows of shale on the outside face of the spreite ridge. Ridges are 2 to 3 mm
wide, diverge from main ridge at approximately 45? with their long face to outside.
Synonymy list
1851 Lophoctenium comosum — Richter , pp. 563
1971 Lophoctenium comosum Richter, 1850 — Chamberlain , pp. 236 , fig. 32:9; Text-fig. 6F-H
1989 Lophoctenium comosum Richter, 1851 — Stepanek & Geyer , pp. 21 , fig. 4:26-29
1996 Lophoctenium comosum Richter, 1851 — Orr et al. , pp. 249 , fig. 8E, F
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Soft-sediment trace fossils | |
| Genus | Lophoctenium |
| Species | comosum |
| haudimmineri |