Species
Tubulichnium mediterranensis (Piñuela, Buatois et Rodríguez-Tovar, 2015)
Taxon description
García-Ramos et al., 2014
Diagnosis.—Dominantly horizontal, spindle-shaped simple burrows, displaying spreite and containing ellipsoidal pellets. Spreite is most commonly retrusive, and rarely protrusive. Boundary is sharp and distinct, but no constructional wall is present. Cross section is subcircular to squarish oblong. Bioglyphs, represented by scratch marks, may be present on the basal and lateral surfaces of the structure.
Synonymy list
2014 Tubotomaculum mediterranensis — Piñuela et al. , pp. 1191, fig. Fig. 3-8
2022 Tubulichnium mediterranensis (García-Ramos,
Mángano, Buatois, and Rodríguez-Tovar, 2014) — Šamánek et al. , pp. 770, fig. Fig. 4
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Coprolites | |
Invertebrate coprolites | |
compound traces with coprolites | |
Genus | Tubulichnium |
Species | incertum |
mediterranensis | |
rectum |