Species

Radulichnus transversus Lopes et Perera, 2018

Type specimen data

holotype: Coronel Tancredo Fernandes de Mello Museum, Santa Vitoria do Palmar, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil ; MCTFM-G08A09a; Borehole G08A09, Brazil; Pleistocene

Reference:

Lopes, R. P., Pereira, J. C. 2018. Molluskan Grazing Traces (Ichnogenus Radulichnus Voigt, 1977) on a Pleistocene Bivalve from Southern Brazil, With the Proposal of a New Ichnospecies. pp. 141-157. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2018.1532898

Taxon description

Lopes & Pereira, 2018

Diagnosis: Sharp, subparallel furrows, paired or forming groups of up to 5, irregularly spaced with interspaces equaling about 1/3 to 1/2 of one furrow length. Groups of furrows are arranged in straight or meandering lines subparallel to each other, or irregularly distributed over the surface. Each individual furrow is transversely oriented in relation to the line. Most individual furrows are straight, but some are slightly arched

Synonymy list

2018 Radulichnus transversus isp. nov. — Lopes & Pereira , pp. 146, fig. 3, 4

2022 Radulichnus transversus Lopes & Pereira, 2019 — Wisshak et al. , pp. 12

Selection of related publications

Wisshak, M., Meyer, N., Kuklinski, P., Rüggeberg, A., Freiwald, A. 2022. ‘Ten Years After’—a long‐term settlement and bioerosion experiment in an Arctic rhodolith bed (Mosselbukta, Svalbard). Geobiology 20, 1, 112-136. DOI:10.1111/gbi.12469

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Ichnofossil group	Ichnofossils
	Bioerosional trace fossils
Family	Gnathichnidae
Genus	Radulichnus
Species	inopinatus
	transversus

References based on distribution

Wisshak et al., 2022a Recent
Lopes & Pereira, 2018 Borehole G08A09, Brazil Upper Pleistocene