Genus
Scolecia Radtke, 1991
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Microboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker bacterium?
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.68. Branched tubular borings.
Knaust, 2012a
Branched, bifurcating.
Blissett & Pickerill, 2007
Diagnosis – (Emended after translation from the original German; after Radtke, 1991, p. 70.) Boring characterized by a complex network of predominantly curved to highly contorted or straight tubules that are either branched or unbranched. Constriction along the tubules and tiering of the tubules may or may not occur.
Selection of related publications
Peel, J. S. 2024. Euendolith borings in Chancelloria and Nisusia from the middle Cambrian (Miaolingian) of North Greenland (Laurentia). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 73, 57–66. DOI:10.37570/bgsd-2024-73-03
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., Seuß, M., Nützel, A. 2008. Evolutionary implications of an exceptionally preserved Carboniferous microboring assemblage in the Buckhorn Asphalt lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA). Current Developments in Bioerosion, pp. 21-54. Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_2
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
Perry, C. T., Macdonald, I. A. 2002. Impacts of light penetration on the bathymetry of reef microboring communities: Implications for the development of microendolithic trace assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 186, 1, 101-113. DOI:10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00446-7
Bundschuh, M. 2000. Silurische Mikrobohrspuren - ihre Beschreibung und Verteilung in verschiedenen Faziesräumen (Schweden, Litauen, Großbritannien und USA). pp. 1-129. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.
Schmidt, H. 1992. Mikrobohrspuren ausgewählter Faziesbereiche der tethyalen und germanischen Trias (Beschreibung, Vergleich und bathymetrische Interpretation). Frankfurter geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten; A: Geologie, Paläontologie 12, 1-228.
Radtke, G. 1991. Die mikroendolithischen Spurenfossilien im Alt-Tertiär West-Europas und ihre palökologische Bedeutung. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 138, 1-185.
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