Species
Maeandropolydora elegans Bromley et D’Alessandro, 1983
Taxon description
Blissett & Pickerill, 2007
Diagnosis– (After Bromley & D’Alessandro, 1983, p. 296.) “System composed of cylindrical galleries of constant diameter, irregularly sinuous, tending to run in paired fashion, the limbs touching but normally not fused. Numerous apertures.”
Description– Cylindrical gallery having a constant diameter of c. 14 μm and two prominent apertures. The gallery loops sharply onto itself and lacks blind ends, pouches and vanes. Fusing of limbs was not observed.
Type specimen data
holotype : University of Copenhagen MGUH 16059 ,
Synonymy list
1983 Maeandropolydora elegans ichnosp. n. — Bromley & D'Alessandro , pp. 295 , fig. Pl. 25:1, text fig.6
2004 Maeandropolydora elegans Bromley & D’Alessandro, 1983 — Blissett & Pickerill , pp. 181 , fig. 7/2; 4
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Osteichnidae |
| Genus | Maeandropolydora |
| Species | barocca |
| crassa | |
| decipiens | |
| elegans | |
| filosa | |
| lenticula | |
| osmaneliensis | |
| sulcans | |
| vermicularis |