Taxon description
Knaust & Neuman, 2016
Diagnosis: Star-shaped imprints and shallowly excavated pits con-taining relatively short arms with a length:width ratio of more than 2
Synonymy list
1878 Heliophycus stelliforme — Miller & Dyer , pp. 3 , fig. Pl. 3:3
1908 Spongaster falax — Fritsch , pp. 9 , fig. Pl. 8 fig 1-3
2016 Asteriacites stelliformis (Miller and Dyer, 1878) Osgood, 1970 — Knaust & Neumann , pp. 117 , fig. Fig. 9
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Soft-sediment trace fossils | |
Family | Asteriacitidae |
Genus | Asteriacites |
Species | lumbricalis |
quinquefolius | |
stelliformis |