Species
Caedichnus lunaris Nicol et Leighton, 2023
Taxon description
Nicol & Leighton, 2023
Diagnosis: Smoothly curved incision of shell material subparallel to a growth line, originating at the growth margin, and extending posteriorly. The incision is often visible at equivalent growth stages on both valves of a bivalved animal but may look different on opposite valves, if present, depending on the relative convexity of each valve. Incisions vary in length and location on the shell surface depending on how large the prey was at the time of the attack.
Strophodonta demissa with predation trace and associated repair scar on the right side of the specimen subparallel to the growth lines.
Synonymy list
2023 Caedichnus lunaris isp. n. — Nicol & Leighton , pp. 21, fig. 2
Selection of related publications
Nicol, S. J., Leighton, L. R. 2023. New ichnospecies and redescription of Caedichnus Stafford et al., 2015, traces indicative of durophagous predation. Ichnos 30, 1, 19-26. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2023.2219824
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Belichnidae |
| Genus | Caedichnus |
| Species | cisus |
| lunaris | |
| spiralis |
References based on distribution
- Nicol & Leighton, 2023 Hanson Aggregates Quarry Devonian