Genus
Helicotaphrichnus Kern, Grimmer et Lister, 1974
Taxon description
Kern et al., 1974
Diagnosis: Helicotaphrichnus is a partly excavated, partly deposited fossil tube that is found ony in the columellar wall of gastropod shells. The tube may be single, or it may double back on itself once or twicw to form tight U or S shapes, but it always follows the helical path of the chamber of the gastripod shell.
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Macroboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker invertebrate
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.73. Spiral borings.
Knaust, 2012a
Unbranched, cylindrical.
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioerosional trace fossils | |
Family | Trypanitidae |
Genus | Anobichnium |
Australocerambyx | |
Carporichnus | |
Eocavum | |
Helicotaphrichnus | |
Species | commensalis |
helicus | |
Genus | Linckichnus |
Osprioneides | |
Paleobuprestis | |
Pecinolites | |
Spirichnus | |
Stipitichnus | |
Trypanites | |
Tubulohyalichnus |