Species

Walcottia rugosa Miller et Dyer, 1878

Taxon description

Osgood, 1970

Diagnosis. - Slender vermiform trace fossils preserved as convex hyporeliefs which possess obliquely directed parallel lobes. The closely spaced lobes are ridgelike and, where present, tend to obscure the body. The form tapers at one end and terminates at the other in a structureless ovoid mass

Synonymy list
1886     Walcottia rugosa — Miller & Dyer , pp. 161-162
1970     Walcottia rugosa Miller and Dyer — Osgood , pp. 378, fig. Pl. 69, fig 5
1978     Walcottia rugosa — Miller & Dyer , pp. 39, fig. pl. 2 figs 11,11a
Classification
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Bioturbation trace fossils
GenusWalcottia
Speciesdevilsdingli
rugosa