Genus

Saccomorpha Radtke, 1991

Taxon description

Wisshak et al., 2019a

Microboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker fungus

Wisshak et al., 2018

Emended diagnosis: Intertwined branching microboring systems in carbonate substrate, with sac-shaped cavities or club-shaped gallery segments interconnected by thin tunnels.

Buatois et al., 2017

Category of architectural design: 2.70. Camerate network borings.

Knaust, 2012a

Branched, sacks.

Selection of related publications

Golubić, S., Radtke, G., Hook, J. E., Campbell, S. E. 2024. Ichnotaxonomy of microboring traces in marine aphotic depths. Geologia Croatica 77, 3, 193-233. DOI:10.4154/gc.2024.19

Martinell, J., Domènech, R. 2022. Bioerosió en molluscs pleistocens de la plataforma marina catalana [Bioerosion in Pleistocene mollusks from the Catalan marine platform]. Nemus 12, 237-261.

Wisshak, M., Meyer, N., Kuklinski, P., Rüggeberg, A., Freiwald, A. 2022. ‘Ten Years After’—a long‐term settlement and bioerosion experiment in an Arctic rhodolith bed (Mosselbukta, Svalbard). Geobiology 20, 1, 112-136. DOI:10.1111/gbi.12469

Wisshak, M., Meyer, N., Radtke, G., Golubić, S. 2018. Saccomorpha guttulata: a new marine fungal microbioerosion trace fossil from cool- to cold-water settings. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 92, 3, 525-533. DOI:10.1007/s12542-018-0407-7

Golubić, S., Radtke, G., Campbell, S. E., Lee, S.-J., Vogel, K., Wisshak, M. 2014. The Complex Fungal Microboring Trace Saccomorpha stereodiktyon isp. nov. Reveals Growth Strategy of its Maker. Ichnos 21, 2, 100-110. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2014.888301

Vogel, K., Brett, C. E. 2009. Record of microendoliths in different facies of the Upper Ordovician in the Cincinnati Arch region USA: The early history of light-related microendolithic zonation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 281, 1-2, 1-24. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.032

Wisshak, M., Gektidis, M., Freiwald, A., Lundälv, T. 2005. Bioerosion along a bathymetric gradient in a cold-temperate setting (Kosterfjord, SW Sweden): an experimental study. Facies 51, 1-4, 93-117. DOI:10.1007/s10347-005-0009-1

Radtke, G., Golubić, S. 2005. Microborings in mollusk shells, Bay of Safaga, Egypt: Morphometry and ichnology. Facies 51, 1-4, 118-134. DOI:10.1007/s10347-005-0016-02

Radtke, G. 1991. Die mikroendolithischen Spurenfossilien im Alt-Tertiär West-Europas und ihre palökologische Bedeutung. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 138, 1-185.

List of species

1. Saccomorpha guttulata Wisshak, Meyer, Radke et Golubic, 2018 | Albian→Recent

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Ichnofossil group	Ichnofossils
	Bioerosional trace fossils
Family	Saccomorphidae
Genus	Polyactina
	Saccomorpha
Species	clava
	collaris
	curvata
	guttulata
	lobata
	papilio
	polypoda
	radiata
	sphaerula
	stereodiktyon
	terminalis
	velum

References based on distribution