Species

Scolecia filosa Radtke, 1991

Taxon description

Blissett & Pickerill, 2007

Diagnosis – (Emended after translation from the original German; after Radtke, 91, p. 72.) Thin, branched or unbranched, slightly curved to vermiform boring lying beneath the substrate’s surface. Tiering may or may not occur.
Description – Multitiered, multibranched, complex network system having straight to slightly curved, thin tubules with average diameter of 116 μm. The total length of the network system is 3·5 mm with a thickness of 900 μm. Branching nodes do not show sign of swelling. Constriction is sporadic and only occurs close to the branching nodes.

Wisshak et al., 2008

Description. The 1-2 µm uniformly thin galleries of this trace are usually found collapsed to the cast surface and overlying other traces, and thereby only apparently form curled carpets or dense networks (Fig. 4G-H). The galleries rarely bifurcate and the individual galleries can often be followed for long stretches of more than 100 µm.

Synonymy list
1991     Scolecia filosa n. ichnosp. — Radtke , pp. 72, fig. 8:3
1992     Scolecia filosa Radtke — Schmidt , pp. 67-68, fig. 5:1-2
2007     Scolecia filosa Radtke, 1991 — Blisset & Pickerill , pp. 93, fig. 4:5
2008     Scolecia filosa Radtke, 1991 — Wisshak et al. , pp. 33, fig. 4G-H
2009     Scolecia filosa Radtke, 1991 — Vogel & Brett , pp. 7, fig. 6
2019     Scolecia filosa Radtke, 1991 — Seuss & Nützel , fig. 3k
2022     Scolecia filosa Radtke, 1991 — Martinell & Domènech , pp. 242
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.
Radtke, G. 1991. Die mikroendolithischen Spurenfossilien im Alt-Tertiär West-Europas und ihre palökologische Bedeutung. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 138, 1-185.
References based on distribution