Species
Calcideletrix fastigata (Radtke, 1991)
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2008
Description. This very rare, substrate-parallel, dendritic boring system is characterised by dichotomously ramifying galleries, emerging from a central small cavity or elongated gallery of 5-8 µm in diameter, thereby slowly tapering towards their terminations (Fig. 9A-B). In addition, the galleries are occasionally connected to the substrate surface by tapering rhizoidal appendages (Fig. 9B). Moderate swellings are often present at the bifurcations and may additionally appear along the galleries.
Synonymy list
1991 Polyactina fastigata — Radtke , pp. 89, fig. 12: 3-4
2008 Polyactina fastigata Radtke, 1991 — Wisshak et al. , pp. 43
2017 Calcideletrix fastigata (Radtke, 1991) comb. nov. — Wisshak , pp. 41, fig. 14
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioerosional trace fossils | |
Family | Dendrinidae |
Genus | Calcideletrix |
Species | anomala |
breviramosa | |
fastigata | |
flexuosa |