Species
Scolecia maeandria Radtke, 1991
Taxon description
Blissett & Pickerill, 2007
Diagnosis – (Emended after translation from the original German; after Radtke, 1991, p. 71.) Densely packed, curved to sinuous, vein-like network system that is parallel to the substrate surface. Constriction along the tunnels is sporadic.
Description – Complex network systems having curved to slightly contorted branching filaments that do not intersect. Average diameter of these fi laments is 170 μm and the length of the network systems averages 3·3 mm. At branching nodes slight swellings occur.
Synonymy list
1991 Scolecia maeandria n. ichnosp. — Radtke , pp. 71, fig. 7:6; 8:1-2
1992 Scolecia maeandria Radtke — Schmidt , pp. 68-69, fig. 5:3
2007 Scolecia maeandria Radtke, 1991 — Blisset & Pickerill , pp. 93, fig. 4:6
Selection of related publications
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.
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Genus | Scolecia |
| Species | acus |
| botulifera | |
| filosa | |
| hirudo | |
| maeandria | |
| nodosa | |
| pluma | |
| serrata | |
| stellaris | |
| urbimetra |
References based on distribution
- Radtke, 1991 Villiers-Saint-Frederic Lutetian
- Schmidt, 1992 Ladinian