Species
Asteriacites lumbricalis Schlotheim, 1820
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.
Type specimen data
lectotype : NaturalHistory Museum of Berlin MB.W5475 ,
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 |
| Soft-sediment trace fossils | |
| Family | Asteriacitidae |
| Genus | Asteriacites |
| Species | lumbricalis |
| quinquefolius | |
| stelliformis |