Ichnofossils
Species

Rusophycus versans Schlirf et Uchman, 2001

Taxon description

Stachacz, 2012a

Diagnosis. – Clusters of short, poorly sculptured, bilobate, coffee-bean-shaped, hypichnial mounds, displaying additional, more or less fan-like or irregularly r ranged lateral lobes (after Schlirf et al., 2001).

Description. – Convex hypichnion, 20 mm long, consisting of a few (about 7) coffee-bean-shaped elements displaced with regard to each other and partly over lapping, resulting in a morphology similar to Rusophycus carbonarius Dawson, 1864. These elements contain more or less distinct lobes, which are separated by a furrow. Three of the elements are ar ranged in a curved ribbon, other elements form a fan-like ar ranged rosette. The simple elements are about 4 mm long and about 2 mm wide.

Schlirf et al., 2001

Diagnosis: Clusters of short, poorly sculptured, bilobate, coffee-bean-shaped, hypichnial mounds, displaying additional, more or less fan-like or irregularly arranged side lobes.

Synonymy list
2001     Rusophycus versans Schlirf & Uchman, n. isp. — Schlirf et al. , pp. 80 , fig. 9, 10A-E
2008     Rusophycus versans Schlirf et al., 2001 — Pollard et al. , pp. 402 , fig. 4
2012     Rusophycus versans Schlirf and Uchman, 2001 — Stachacz , pp. 243 , fig. fig. 4F