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Bioturbation trace fossils
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Vinn, O., Almansour, M. I., Al Farraj, S., El Hedeny, M. 2024. The abundance of Arachnostega in trilobite molds remained unaffected by the climatic warming during the Ordovician in Baltica. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen DOI:10.1127/njgpa/2024/1204
Knaust, D. 2024. The trace fossil Thalassinoides paradoxicus Kennedy, 1967 revisited from its type locality (Albian-Cenomanian chalk, SE England). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 634, 111913. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111913
Matysik, M., Stachacz, M., Knaust, D., Whitehouse, M. J. 2022. Geochemistry, ichnology, and sedimentology of omission levels in Middle Triassic (Muschelkalk) platform carbonates of the Germanic Basin (southern Poland). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 585, 110732. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110732
Knaust, D., Mikuláš, R., Mángano, M., Netto, R., Buatois, L. 2022. The ichnospecies Tambia gregaria (Fritsch, 1908) comb. nov. from the Upper Ordovician of Czechia. Bulletin of Geosciences 97, 2, 165-177. DOI:10.3140/bull.geosci.1846
Knaust, D. 2021. Rosselichnidae ifam. nov.: burrows with concentric, spiral or eccentric lamination. Papers in Palaeontology 7, 4, 1847-1875. DOI:10.1002/spp2.1367
Stachacz, M., Knaust, D., Matysik, M. 2021. Middle Triassic bivalve traces from central Europe (Muschelkalk, Anisian): overlooked burrows of a common ichnofabric. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 96, 175-196. DOI:10.1007/s12542-021-00583-6
Grytsenko, V. 2021. Some new ichnospecies stored in the Geological Department of the National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine. Geo&Bio 20, 29-35. DOI:10.15407/gb2004
Vallon, L. H., Milàn, J., Rindsberg, A. K., Madsen, H., Rasmussen, J. A. 2020. Cutting-edge technology: burrows lined with sponge bioclasts from the Upper Cretaceous of Denmark. Ichnos 27, 3, 317-325. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2020.1744581
Toom, U., Vinn, O., Isakar, M., Madison, A., Hints, O. 2020. Small faecal pellets in Ordovician shelly fossils from Estonia, Baltoscandia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 69, 1, 1-19. DOI:10.3176/earth.2020.01
Knaust, D. 2019. The enigmatic trace fossil Tisoa de Serres, 1840. Earth-Science Reviews 188, 123-147. DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.11.001
Toom, U., Vinn, O., Hints, O. 2019. Ordovician and Silurian ichnofossils from carbonate facies in Estonia: A collection-based review. Palaeoworld 28, 1-2, 123-144. DOI:10.1016/j.palwor.2018.07.001
Egenhoff, S., Maletz, J., Ahlberg, P., Mast, A., Frisk, Å. M., Ebbestad, J. O. R., Newby, W. 2018. Sedimentology of the Lower Ordovician (upper Tremadocian) Bjørkåsholmen Formation at Flagabro, southern Sweden. GFF 140, 1, 55-65. DOI:10.1080/11035897.2018.1445777
Vinn, O., Toom, U. 2018. First description of rare Teichichnus burrows from carbonate rocks of the Lower Paleozoic of Estonia. Carnets de Géologie 18, 13, 305-312. DOI:10.4267/2042/68550
Knaust, D., Minter, N. J. 2018. The fish swimming trace Undichna unisulca from the Silurian of Sweden: probably the oldest vertebrate locomotion trace fossil. Lethaia 51, 4, 469-472. DOI:10.1111/let.12272
Laing, B. A., Buatois, L. A., Mángano, M. G., Narbonne, G. M., Gougeon, R. C. 2018. Gyrolithes from the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary section in Fortune Head, Newfoundland, Canada: Exploring the onset of complex burrowing. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 495, 171-185. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.01.010
Hoffmann, R., Grimmberger, G., Knaust, D. 2016. Tubichnus angulatus - A Complex Burrow System from Erratic Boulders of Early Cambrian Age, Northeast Germany and South Sweden. Ichnos 23, 1-2, 116-125. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2015.1132214
Hanken, N.-M., Uchman, A., Nielsen, J. K., Olaussen, S., Eggebø, T., Steinsland, R. 2016. Late Ordovician trace fossils from offshore to shallow water mixed siliciclastic and carbonate facies in the Ringerike Area, Oslo Region, Norway. Ichnos 23, 3-4, 189-221. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2016.1199427
Vinn, O., Toom, U. 2016. Rare arthropod traces from the Ordovician and Silurian of Estonia (Baltica). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen 280, 2, 135-141. DOI:10.1127/njgpa/2016/0570
Knaust, D. 2015. Siphonichnidae (new ichnofamily) attributed to the burrowing activity of bivalves: Ichnotaxonomy, behaviour and palaeoenvironmental implications. Earth-Science Reviews 150, 497-519. DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.07.014
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Toom, U. 2015. Distribution of Conichnus and Amphorichnus in the Lower Paleozoic of Estonia (Baltica). Carnets de Géologie 15, 19, 269-278. DOI:10.4267/2042/58180
Knaust, D. 2015. Trace fossils from the continental Upper Triassic Kågeröd Formation of Bornholm, Denmark. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 85, 3, 481–492. DOI:10.14241/asgp.2015.031
Vinn, O., Toom, U. 2015. The trace fossil Zoophycos from the Silurian of Estonia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 64, 4, 284-288. DOI:10.3176/earth.2015.34
Vinn, O., Toom, U. 2014. First record of the trace fossil Oikobesalon from the Ordovician (Darriwilian) of Baltica. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 63, 2, 118-121. Estonian Academy Publishers. DOI:10.3176/earth.2014.11
Vinn, O., Wilson, M., Zatoń, M., Toom, U. 2014. The trace fossil Arachnostega in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica). Palaeontologia Electronica 17, 17.3.40A, 1-9. Coquina Press. DOI:10.26879/477
Sadlok, G. 2014. Rusophycus inexpectus isp. nov. from the Furongian (Upper Cambrian) of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 84, 2, 143-151.
Vinn, O. 2014. Cruziana traces from the Late Silurian (Pridoli) carbonate shelf of Saaremaa, Estonia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 63, 2, 71-75. DOI:10.3176/earth.2014.06
Mikuláš, R., Meškis, S., Ivanov, A., Lukševičs, E., Zupinš, I., Stinkulis, G. 2013. A rich ichnofossil assemblage from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) deposits at Andoma Hill, Onega Lake, Russia. Bulletin of Geosciences 88, 2, 389-400. DOI:10.3140/bull.geosci.1358
Knaust, D., Dronov, A. 2013. Balanoglossites ichnofabrics from the Middle Ordovician Volkhov formation (St. Petersburg Region, Russia). Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 21, 3, 265-279. DOI:10.1134/S0869593813030040
Jensen, S., Buatois, L. A., Mángano, M. G. 2013. Testing for palaeogeographical patterns in the distribution of Cambrian trace fossils. Geological Society, London, Memoirs 38, 1, 45-58. Geological Society of London. DOI:10.1144/M38.5
Ivantsov, A. Yu. 2013. Trace fossils of precambrian metazoans “Vendobionta” and “Mollusks”. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 21, 3, 252-264. DOI:10.1134/S0869593813030039
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A. 2013. An event bed with abundant Skolithos burrows from the late Pridoli (Silurian) of Saaremaa (Estonia). Carnets de Géologie 13, 2, 83-87. DOI:10.4267/2042/49316
Stachacz, M. 2012. New finds of Rusophycus from the lower Cambrian Ociesęki Sandstone Formation (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Geological Quarterly 56, 2, 237-248. DOI:10.7306/gq.1018
Mángano, M. G., Buatois, L. A. 2011. Timing of infaunalization in shallow-marine early Paleozoic communities in Gondwanan settings: discriminating evolutionary and paleogeographic controls. Palaeontologia Electronica 14, 2, 1-21.
Ivantsov, A. Yu. 2011. Feeding traces of proarticulata—the Vendian metazoa. Paleontological Journal 45, 3, 237-248. Pleiades Publishing Ltd. DOI:10.1134/S0031030111030063
Loydell, D. K. (ed) 2011. Siluria Revisited: Programme and Abstracts. International Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy. pp. .
Schallreuter, R., Hinz-Schallreuter, I. 2010. Schwarze Wurmröhren aus silurischen Kalkgeschieben. Geschiebekunde aktuell 26, 1-8.
Uchman, A. 2010. A new ichnogenus Skolichnus for Chondrites hoernesii Ettingshausen, 1863, a deep-sea radial trace fossil from the Upper Cretaceous of the Polish Flysch Carpathians: Its taxonomy and palaeoecological interpretation as a deep-tier chemichnion. Cretaceous Research 31, 5, 515-523. DOI:10.1016/j.cretres.2010.07.002
Pacześna, J. 2010. Ichnological record of the activity of Anthozoa in the early Cambrian succession of the Upper Silesian Block (southern Poland). Acta Geologica Polonica 60, 1, 93-103.
Uchman, A., Kazakauskas, V., Gaigalas, A. 2009. Trace fossils from Late Pleistocene varved lacustrine sediments in eastern Lithuania. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 272, 199-211. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.08.003
Knaust, D. 2008. Balanoglossites Mägdefrau, 1932 from the Middle Triassic of Germany: part of a complex trace fossil probably produced by burrowing and boring polychaetes. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 82, 4, 347-372. DOI:10.1007/BF03184427
Landing, E., Peng, S., Babcock, L. E., Geyer, G., Moczydlowska-Vidal, M. 2007. Global standard names for the Lowermost Cambrian Series and Stage. Episodes 30, 4, 287-289. DOI:10.18814/epiiugs/2007/v30i4/004
Schlirf, M., Bromley, R. G. 2007. Teichichnus duplex n. isp., new trace fossil from the Cambrian and the Triassic. Beringeria 37, 133-141.
Davies, N. S., Sansom, I. J., Turner, P. 2006. Trace fossils and paleoenvironments of a Late Silurian marginal-marine/alluvial system: the Ringerike Group (Lower Old Red Sandstone), Oslo Region, Norway. Palaios 21, 1, 46-62. DOI:10.2110/palo.2003.p03-08
Kushlina, V. B. 2006. Biting traces on echinoderms from the Ordovician of the St. Petersburg Region (Russia). 3rd Workshop on Ichnotaxonomy. Prague and Jevíčko (Czech Republic). September 4 – 9, 2006, pp. 12-14.
Uchman, A., Gaždzicki, A. 2006. New trace fossils from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene) of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Polish Polar Research 27, 2, 153 – 170.
Systra, Y., Jensen, S. 2006. Trace fossils from the Dividalen Group of northern Finland with remarks on early Cambrian trace fossil provincialism. GFF 128, 4, 321-325. Informa UK Limited. DOI:10.1080/11035890601284321
Uchman, A., Hanken, N.-M., Binns, R. 2005. Ordovician Bathyal Trace Fossils From Metasiliciclastics in Central Norway and Their Sedimentological and Paleogeographical Implications. Ichnos 12, 2, 105-133. DOI:10.1080/10420940590914534
Mikuláš R., Dronov, A. 2005. Trace fossils. 6th Baltic Stratigraphical Conference, IGCP 503 Meeting, August 23-25, 2005. Cambrian and Ordovician of St. Petersburg region. Guidebook of the pre-conference field trip, pp. 33-38. St. Petersburg State University, VSEGEI.
Knaust, D. 2004. Cambro-Ordovician trace fossils from the SW-Norwegian Caledonides. Geological Journal 39, 1, 1-24. DOI:10.1002/gj.941
Wisshak, M., Volohonsky, E., Seilacher, A., Freiwald, A. 2004. A trace fossil assemblage from fluvial Old Red deposits (Wood Bay Formation; Lower to Middle Devonian) of NW-Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Lethaia 37, 2, 149-163. DOI:10.1080/00241160410005763
Jensen, S. 2003. The Proterozoic and Earliest Cambrian Trace Fossil Record; Patterns, Problems and Perspectives. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43, 1, 219-228. DOI:10.1093/icb/43.1.219
Bromley, R. G., Uchman, A. 2003. Trace fossils from the Lower and Middle Jurassic marginal-marine deposits of the Sorthat Formation, Bornholm, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 50, 2, 185-208. DOI:10.37570/bgsd-2003-50-15
Ekdale, A. A., Bromley, R. G. 2003. Paleoethologic interpretation of complex Thalassinoides in shallow-marine limestones, Lower Ordovician, southern Sweden. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 192, 1-4, 221-227. DOI:10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00686-7
Jensen, S., Mens, K. 2001. Trace fossils Didymaulichnus cf. tirasensis and Monomorphichnus isp. from the Estonian Lower Cambrian, with a discussion on the early Cambrian ichnocoenoses of Baltica. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 50, 2, 75-85. DOI:10.3176/geol.2001.2.01
Rydell, J., Hammarlund, J., Seilacher, A. 2001. Trace fossil associations in the Swedish Mickwitzia sandstone (Lower Cambrian): Did trilobites really hunt for worms?. GFF 123, 4, 247-250. DOI:10.1080/11035890101234247
Seilacher, A. 2000. Ordovician and Silurian Arthrophycid Ichnostratigraphy. Geological Exploration in Murzuq Basin, pp. 237-258. Elsevier. DOI:10.1016/B978-044450611-5/50013-1
Mikuláš, R. 2000. Trace fossils from the Cambrian of the Barandian area (Central Bohemia, Czech Republic). Czech Geological Survey Special Paper 12, 1-29.
Jensen, S., Bergström, J. 2000. Cheiichnus gothicus igen. et isp. n., a new Bergaueria-like arthropod trace fossil from the Lower Cambrian of Västergötland, Sweden. GFF 122, 3, 293-296. Informa UK Limited. DOI:10.1080/11035890001223293
Jensen, S., Mens, K. 1999. A Lower Cambrian shallow-water occurrence of the branching ‘deep-water’ type trace fossil Dendrorhaphe from the Lontova Formation, eastern Latvia. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 73, 1-2, 187-193. DOI:10.1007/BF02987992
Thomas, A. T., Smith, M. P. 1998. Terebellid Polychaete burrows from the Lower Palaeozoic. Palaeontology 41, 2, 317-333.
Jensen, S., Grant, S. W. F. 1998. Trace fossils from the Dividalen Group, northern Sweden: implications for Early Cambrian biostratigraphy of Baltica. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 78, 4, 305-317.
Jensen, S. 1997. Trace fossils from the Lower Cambrian Mickwitzia sandstone, south-central Sweden. Fossils and Strata 42, 1-110.
Orłowski, S., Żylińska, A. 1996. Non-arthropod burrows from the Middle and Late Cambrian of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 41, 4, 385-409.
Nielsen, J. K., Hansen, K. S., Simonsen, L. 1996. Sedimentology and ichnology of the Robbedale Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Bornholm, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 43, 2, 115-131. DOI:10.37570/bgsd-1996-43-12
Pacześna, J. 1996. The Vendian and Cambrian ichnocoenoses from the Polish part of the East-European Platform. Prace Państwowego Instytu Geologicznego 152, 1-77.
Crimes, T. P. 1992. Changes in the trace fossil biota across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic boundary. Journal of the Geological Society 149, 4, 637-646. DOI:10.1144/gsjgs.149.4.0637
Mikuláš, R. 1992. Trace fossils from the Kosov Formation of the Bohemian Upper Ordovician. Sborník Geologickych Vĕd. Paleontologie 32, 9-54.
Orłowski, S. 1992. Trilobite trace fossils and their stratigraphical significance in the Cambrian sequence of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Geological Journal 27, 1, 15-34. DOI:10.1002/gj.3350270104
Pirrus, E. 1992. Freshening of the late Vendian basin on the East European Craton. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 41, 3, 115-123. DOI:10.3176/geol.1992.3.03
Jensen, S. 1991. The Lower Cambrian problematicum Spatangopsis costata Torell, 1870. GFF 113, 1, 86-87. DOI:10.1080/11035899109453833
Bromley, R. G., Goldring, R. 1991. The palaeoburrows at the Cretaceous to Palaeocene firmground unconformity in southern England. Tertiary Research 13, 2-4, 95-102.
Pickerill, R. K., Peel, J. S. 1991. Gordia nodosa isp. nov. and other trace fossils from the Cass Fjord Formation (Cambrian) of North Greenland. Rapport GrønIands Geologiske Undersøgelse 150, 15-28. DOI:10.34194/rapggu.v150.8136
Dam, G., Andreasen, F. 1990. High-energy ephemeral stream deltas; an example from the Upper Silurian Holmestrand Formation of the Oslo Region, Norway. Sedimentary Geology 66, 3-4, 197-225. Elsevier BV. DOI:10.1016/0037-0738(90)90060-7
Plička, M., Uhrová, J. 1990. New trace fossils from the Outer Carpathians fysch (Czechoslovakia). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae Naturales 75, 53–59.
Elias, R. J., Nowlan, G. S., Bolton, T. E. 1988. Paleontology of the type section, Fort Garry Member, Red River Formation (Upper Ordovician), southern Manitoba. pp. 341-359.
Kowalski, W. R. 1987. Trace fossils of the Upper Vendian and lowermost Cambrian in southern Poland. Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences 35, 1, 21–32.
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List of species
4. Arcuatichnus wimani Kowalski, 1978 | Lower Cambrian (old nomenclature)→Middle Cambrian (old nomenclature)
8. Balanoglossites triadicus Mägdefrau, 1932 | Volkhov Stage
11. Bergaueria elliptica Orłowski et Żylińska, 1996 | Upper Cambrian (old nomenclature)
14. Bergaueria perata Prantl, 1945 | Cambrian
16. Bergaueria sucta Seilacher, 1990 | Cambrian
19. Bornichnus tortuosus Bromley et Uchman, 2003 | Lower Jurassic
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