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
Peel, J. S. 2024. Euendolith borings in Chancelloria and Nisusia from the middle Cambrian (Miaolingian) of North Greenland (Laurentia). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 73, 57–66. DOI:10.37570/bgsd-2024-73-03
Seuss, B., Nützel, A. 2019. Bioerosion in fossil cephalopods: a case study from the Upper Carboniferous Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Lagerstätte, Oklahoma, USA. Facies 65, 2, 6-17. Springer Nature. DOI:10.1007/s10347-018-0547-y
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
Wisshak, M., Gektidis, M., Freiwald, A., Lundälv, T. 2005. Bioerosion along a bathymetric gradient in a cold-temperate setting (Kosterfjord, SW Sweden): an experimental study. Facies 51, 1-4, 93-117. DOI:10.1007/s10347-005-0009-1
Bundschuh, M. 2000. Silurische Mikrobohrspuren - ihre Beschreibung und Verteilung in verschiedenen Faziesräumen (Schweden, Litauen, Großbritannien und USA). pp. 1-129. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.
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.
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