Species

Siphonichnus ophthalmoides (Jessen, 1950)

Taxon description

Knaust, 2015b

Diagnosis (emended): Vertical, oblique or horizontal cylindrical burrow with a linear, winding or bow-shaped morphology, circular to oval in cross-section, characterised by a laminated meniscate mantle (active fill), which is penetrated by a homogeneous core (passive fill).

Synonymy list
1950     Planolites ophthalmoides — Jessen , pp. 34-35, fig. 1. 3
1968     Ophtalmichnium opthalmoides (Jessen, 1950) — Pfeiffer , pp. 691
1980     Siphonichnus eccaensis — Stanistreet et al. , pp. 343
1988     Ophthalmidium ophthalmoides — Pollard , pp. 339
2008     Siphonichnus eccaensis — Carmona et al. , pp. 107, fig. 5
2012     Siphonichnus ophthalmoides — Angulo & Buatois
2013     Siphonichnus eccaensisus Stanistreet, Le Blanc Smith and Cable, 1980 — Zonneveld & Gingras , pp. 249, fig. 2A, 2E,3A
2015     Siphonichnus ophthalmoides — Knaust , pp. 507, fig. 7
2018     Siphonichnus eccaensis — Dorador et al. , pp. 17, fig. 3G
Selection of related publications
Knaust, D. 2015. Siphonichnidae (new ichnofamily) attributed to the burrowing activity of bivalves: Ichnotaxonomy, behaviour and palaeoenvironmental implications. Earth-Science Reviews 150, 497-519. DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.07.014
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Classification
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Bioturbation trace fossils
FamilySiphonichnidae
GenusSiphonichnus
Speciesophthalmoides
References based on distribution