Taxon description
Getty, 2018
Emended Diagnosis. Bifurculapes with one to three tracks per series and a regularly repeating, alternate trackway pattern
Synonymy list
1858 Sagittarius alternans — Hitchcock , pp. 16 , fig. Pl. 6;3; 18.5
1858 Bifurculapes laqueatus — Hitchcock , pp. 153
1865 Biferculipes elachistotatus — Hitchcock , pp. 16
1865 Bifurculapes laqueatus — Hitchcock , pp. 15 , fig. 7:5,9
1889 Sagittarius alternans — Hitchcock , pp. 119
1889 Bifurculipes curvatus — Hitchcock , pp. 119
1889 Bifurculipes laqueatus — Hitchcock , pp. 119
1889 Bifurculipes elachistotatus — Hitchcock , pp. 119
1915 Sagittarius alternans — Lull , pp. 61
1915 Bifurculapes elachistotatus — Lull , pp. 58
1915 Bifurculapes curvatus — Lull , pp. 58
1953 Sagittarius alternans — Lull , pp. 46
1953 Bifurculapes laqueatus — Lull , pp. 42 , fig. Fig. 2
1953 Bifurculapes curvatus — Lull , pp. 42
1953 Bifurculapes elachistotatus — Lull , pp. 42
1975 Sagittarius alternans — Häntzschel , pp. W191
2005 Camurichnus alternans — Rainforth , pp. 836
2016 Bifurculapes laqueatus Hitchcock, 1858 — Getty , pp. 251 , fig. 1, 4a-f
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Soft-sediment trace fossils | |
Trackways and scratch imprints | |
Genus | Bifurculapes |
Species | laqueatus |
scolopendroideus |