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 group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Soft-sediment trace fossils | |
| Family | Siphonichnidae |
| Genus | Siphonichnus |
| Species | ophthalmoides |
References based on distribution
- Knaust, 2015b Helsingborg, Skåne Jurassic