Genus
Ericichnus Santos et Mayoral, 2015
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Grazing; substrate siliceous; tracemaker invertebrate
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.79. Groove bioerosion traces.
Santos et al., 2015
Diagnosis. Grooves relatively deep, with sinuous pathway, with a width fairly uniform along its trajectory. Often they show points where the path is bifurcated reaching, in these cases, a width which can be the double of the normal diameter. Inside there are a number of lines or marks, more or less pronounced, with a concavity oriented in the animal's direction of movement.
Ethology. From an ethological point of view, the resulting compound trace fossil Ericichnus igen. n.– Circolites is interpreted as an agrichnion – pascichnion and/or domichnion.
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioerosional trace fossils | |
Family | Circolitidae |
Genus | Circolites |
Ericichnus | |
Species | asgaardi |
bromleyi | |
Genus | Osteocallis |
Planavolites |