Genus
Canalichnus Santos et Mayoral, 2006
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Attachment; substrate calcareous; tracemaker invertebrate
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.78. Elongate or branched attachment bioerosion traces.
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.
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