Species
Asteriacites lumbricalis Schlotheim, 1820
Type specimen data
lectotype: NaturalHistory Museum of Berlin ; MB.W5475
Reference:
Knaust, D., Neumann, C. 2016. Asteriacites von Schlotheim, 1820 – the oldest valid ichnogenus name – and other asterozoan-produced trace fossils. pp. 111-120. DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.04.003
Taxon description
Knaust & Neuman, 2016
Diagnosis: Star-shaped imprints and shallowly excavated pits withslender arms distinctly set off from a central disc-shaped area circularor pentagonal in outline.
Dam, 1990a
Description: Starfish-shaped trace, preserved in convex hyporelief; consists of 5 slender 'arms', 12-20 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, decreasing distally; central part of the trace is 5-7 mm in diameter.
Synonymy list
1908 Spongaster falax — Fritsch , pp. 9, fig. Pl 8: 4,5,7
1990 Asteriacites lumbricalis Seilacher, 1953 — Dam , pp. 124, fig. 5E
1999 Asteriacites lumbricalis — Mangano et al. , pp. 19, fig. Fig. 3, 4, 5
2016 Asteriacites lumbricalis von Schlotheim, 1820 — Knaust & Neumann , pp. 113, fig. Fig. 5, 7B, 8
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioturbation trace fossils | |
| Family | Asteriacitidae |
| Genus | Asteriacites |
| Species | lumbricalis |
| quinquefolius | |
| stelliformis |