Genus

Planobola Schmidt, 1992

Taxon description

Wisshak et al., 2019a

Microboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker bacterium?

Buatois et al., 2017

Category of architectural design: 2.64. Globular to spherical borings.

Blissett & Pickerill, 2007

Diagnosis – (Translated from the original German; Schmidt, 1992, p. 50.) “Spheroid or bulbous boring systems with latitudinal contact to the substrate surface.”

Knaust, 2012a

Unbranched, spheroidal.

Selection of related publications
Vogel, K., Brett, C. E. 2009. Record of microendoliths in different facies of the Upper Ordovician in the Cincinnati Arch region USA: The early history of light-related microendolithic zonation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 281, 1-2, 1-24. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.032
Schmidt, H. 1992. Mikrobohrspuren ausgewählter Faziesbereiche der tethyalen und germanischen Trias (Beschreibung, Vergleich und bathymetrische Interpretation). Frankfurter geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten; A: Geologie, Paläontologie 12, 1-228.