Genus
Bilinichnus Fedonkin et Palij, 1979
Taxon description
Keighley & Pickerill, 1996a
Diagnosis: Elongate, straight to irregularly (not sinusoidally) winding, paired furrows (in concave epirelief) or paired ridges (in convex hyporelief). Furrows wellspaced, separated by a distance considerably greater than the width of the individual furrows. Exclusively, furrows smooth and lacking ornamentation, with sharp to rounded bases (after Palij et al., 1979).
Selection of related publications
Pacześna, J. 1996. The Vendian and Cambrian ichnocoenoses from the Polish part of the East-European Platform. Prace Państwowego Instytu Geologicznego 152, 1-77.
Crimes, T. P. 1992. Changes in the trace fossil biota across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic boundary. Journal of the Geological Society 149, 4, 637-646. DOI:10.1144/gsjgs.149.4.0637
Pirrus, E. 1992. Freshening of the late Vendian basin on the East European Craton. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 41, 3, 115-123. DOI:10.3176/geol.1992.3.03
Palij, V. M., Posti, E., Fedonkin, M. A. 1979. Soft-bodied Metazoa and trace fossils of Vendian and Lower Cambrian. Upper Precambrian and Cambrian Paleontology of East-European Platform, pp. 49-82. Nauka.
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