Genus
Bifungites Desio, 1940,
Taxon description
Pickerill & Forbes, 1979
Description. -U-shaped or inverted pi-shaped burrows in which two smooth vertical cylindrical tubes extend upward from a basal horizontal chamber. Lateral terminations of the basal chamber are spherical giving the traces a characteristic dumbbell shape. Sediment between the vertical paired tubes is undisturbed and clearly lacks spreiten structures.
Selection of related publications
Palij, V. M., Posti, E., Fedonkin, M. A. 1979. Soft-bodied Metazoa and trace fossils of Vendian and Lower Cambrian. Upper Precambrian and Cambrian Paleontology of East-European Platform, pp. 49-82. Nauka.
Classification