Species
Xylonichnus garciorum (Genise, 1995)
Taxon description
Melnyk et al., 2020 (for 2021)
Diagnosis/description: Boxwork of anastomosed longitudinal borings; interconnected by short tangential tunnels; lacking outer layer but filled with hexagonal fecal pellets.
Genise, 1995
Diagnosis: A boxwork of anostomosed longitudinal borings interconnected by short tangential ones in the pith of a cycad stem. Borings are 1 to 3 mm wide, they have no outer layer and most of them are filled with compact masses of excrement. Some borings contain individual fecal pellets having hexagonal cross-sections.
Synonymy list
1995 Cycalichnus garciorum n. isp. — Genise , pp. 294, fig. Figs. 2D, E; 5
2023 Xylonichnus garciorum (Genise, 1995) comb. nov. — Pokorny & Borges , pp. 602
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Talpinidae |
| Genus | Xylonichnus |
| Species | garciorum |
| meniscatus | |
| trypetus |