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 & Neumann, 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. 8: 4,5,7
1962     Asteriacites lumbricalis Schlotheim, 1820 — Häntzschel , pp. W184, fig. 110:2
1990     Asteriacites lumbricalis Seilacher, 1953 — Dam , pp. 124, fig. 5E
1999     Asteriacites lumbricalis — Mángano, Buatois, West & Maples , pp. 19, fig. 3, 4, 5
2016     Asteriacites lumbricalis von Schlotheim, 1820 — Knaust & Neumann , pp. 113, fig. 5, 7B, 8
Classification
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
FamilyAsteriacitidae
GenusAsteriacites
Specieslumbricalis
quinquefolia
stelliformis