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.
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 |