Genus
Phymatoderma Brongniart, 1849
Taxon description
Uchman & Gazdzicki, 2010
Diagnosis. — Horizontal to subhorizontal trace fossil composed of irregularly branched lobes spreading out from one point. Edges of the lobes are irregular and Trace fossils from the Cape Melville Formation 85 Moby Dick Icefall Melville Peninsula Wrona Buttress Destruction Bay Fig. 2. The north cliff face and top of the Melville Peninsula exposing horizontally stratified glacio−marine strata of the Lower Miocene Cape Melville Formation. can show palmate termination. The lobes are commonly filled with pellets arranged perpendicularly to the longer axes of the lobes (after description by Fu 1991).
Buatois et al., 2017
Category 2.17. Horizontal burrows with horizontal to vertical branches.
Classification
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Coprolites | |
Invertebrate coprolites | |
compound traces with coprolites | |
Genus | Alcyonidiopsis |
Phymatoderma | |
Species | alcicorne |
burkei | |
granulata | |
melvillensis | |
penicillum | |
Genus | Quebecichnus |
Tomaculum | |
Tubularina | |
Tubulichnium |