Species
Scolecocoprus cameroensis Braddy, 1947
Taxon description
Brady, 1947
Description.-A series of cylindrical sandy masses, about 15 mm. in diameter, resembling large fecal pellets, each one overlapping by about 5 mm. the rounded end of the one previously expelled, and leaving an exposed length of about 10 to 25 mm. between the grooves which mark the limits of the overlap. The whole gives somewhat the appearance of a long irregularly segmented wornm.
Synonymy list
1947 Scolecocoprus cameroensis Braddy,n. sp. — Brady , pp. 471, fig. 69:1
1978 Scolecocoprus cameroensis — Decourten , pp. 492, fig. 1
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioturbation trace fossils | |
Genus | Scolecocoprus |
Species | cameroensis |