Species
Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868)
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Type macroboring, substrate calcareous, tracemaker invertebrate.
Bromley & D'Alessandro, 1984
Diagnosis: Non-camerate entobian, organized in an irregular boxwork system becoming more or less complexly intermeshed in the mature stages. The galleries are subcylindrical, frequently bifurcated, swollen at nodal points where, usually, several galleries conjoin. Apertures large and numerous, circular or oval in shape, rarely fused, disposed irregularly. Phase A reduced; phases B-D well developed.
Synonymy list
1866 Cliona megastoma nomen nudum — Fischer , pp. 198
1984 Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868) — Bromley & D'Alessandro , pp. 250, fig. 23:3; 24:2, 3; 26:1; 27:2
1987 Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868) — Bromley & D'Alessandro , fig. 41:1
1991 Entobia megastoma (Fischer) — Feige & Fürsich , pp. 93
2019 Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868) — Wisshak, Knaust & Bertling , pp. 10
Selection of related publications
Mikuláš, R. 1992. Early Cretaceous borings from Štramberk (Czechoslovakia). Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii 37, 4, 297– 312.
Feige, A., Fürsich, F. T. 1991. Taphonomy of the Recent molluscs of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico). Zitteliana 18, 89-133.
Classification
References based on distribution
- Feige & Fürsich, 1991
- Mikuláš, 1992b Kotuč quarr Valanginian