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 groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Soft-sediment trace fossils
GenusScolecocoprus
Speciescameroensis