Genus
Canalichnus Santos et Mayoral, 2006
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Attachment; substrate calcareous; tracemaker invertebrate
Santos & Mayoral, 2006
Diagnosis. Superficial, very shallow furrows, subtriangular in cross-section, organised into more or less isolated or parallel series that branch at acute angles.
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.78. Elongate or branched attachment bioerosion traces.
Selection of related publications
Santos, A., Mayoral, E. 2006. Bioerosive Structures of sclerozoan foraminifera from the Lower Pliocene of Southern Spain: a contribution to the palaeoecology of marine hard substrate communities. Palaeontology 49, 4, 719-732. DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00560.x
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Renichnidae |
| Genus | Camarichnus |
| Canalichnus | |
| Species | tenuis |
| Genus | Renichnus |
| Spirolites | |
| Sulcichnus |
References based on distribution
- Santos & Mayoral, 2006 Pliocene