Family
Podichnidae Wisshak, Knaust et Bertling, 2019
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019b
Diagnosis: Multiple round or oval depressions on the surface of hard substrates, regularly spaced in a cluster.
Ethological category: Fixichnia (attachment traces).
Selection of related publications
Wisshak, M., Hüne, L. 2019. The new encrusting microproblematicum Circumpodium enigmaticum and its attachment trace Circumpodichnus serialis from the Middle Jurassic of Normandy (France). Fossil Record 22, 2, 77-90. DOI:10.5194/fr-22-77-2019
Santos, A., Mayoral, E., Villas, E., Herrera, Z., Ortega, G. 2014. First record of Podichnus in orthide brachiopods from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) of NW Argentina and its relation to the early use of an ethological strategy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 399, 1, 67-77. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.02.003
Sørensen, A.M., Surlyk, F. 2008. A brachiopod boring (Podichnus) in a Late Cretaceous oyster from a mangrove-like environment, Skåne, Sweden. Lethaia 41, 3, 295–298. DOI:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00107.x
Robinson, J. H., Lee, D. E. 2008. Brachiopod pedicle traces: recognition of three separate types of trace and redefinition of Podichnus centrifugalis Bromley and Surlyk 1973. Fossils and Strata 54, 219-225.
Donovan, S. K., Jagt, J. W. M. 2005. Flosculichnus tectus, an etched attachment scar from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of The Netherlands. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belqique, Sciences de la Terre 75, 207-210.
Małkowski, K. 1975. Attachment scars of the brachiopod Coenothyris vulgaris (Schlotheim, 1820) from the Muschelkalk of Upper Silesia. Acta Geologica Polonica 25, 2, 275-282.
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