Species
Clionolithes palmatus Clarke, 1908
Taxon description
Wisshak, 2017
Emended diagnosis. Trace developed along a number of principal branches which curve in a regular manner, forming stretched and longitudinally buckled sheet-like fans or terminating in fine ramifications, producing a trace with a jagged or lobed outline. Branches may radiate from only one side of a main axis. Surface texture largely smooth, tips of branches connect to substrate surface.
Synonymy list
1908 Clionolithes palmatus — Clarke , pp. 169, fig. pl. 12, figs 1–2
1963 Cliononlithes sollei — Talent
2017 Clionolithes palmatus Clarke, 1908 — Wisshak , pp. 27, fig. 6
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioerosional trace fossils | |
Family | Dendrinidae |
Genus | Clionolithes |
Species | alcicornis |
amoebae | |
bullahirsuta | |
cervicornis | |
convexus | |
hunanensis | |
implicatus | |
irregularis | |
palmatus | |
pannosus | |
pricei | |
quaerens | |
radicans | |
ramosus | |
sollei |