Genus

Scolecia Radtke, 1991

Taxon description

Wisshak et al., 2019a

Microboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker bacterium?

Buatois et al., 2017

Category of architectural design: 2.68. Branched tubular borings.

Knaust, 2012a

Branched, bifurcating.

Blissett & Pickerill, 2007

Diagnosis – (Emended after translation from the original German; after Radtke, 1991, p. 70.) Boring characterized by a complex network of predominantly curved to highly contorted or straight tubules that are either branched or unbranched. Constriction along the tubules and tiering of the tubules may or may not occur.

Aiheeseen liittyvät julkaisut
Peel, J. S. 2024. Euendolith borings in Chancelloria and Nisusia from the middle Cambrian (Miaolingian) of North Greenland (Laurentia). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 73, 57–66. DOI:10.37570/bgsd-2024-73-03
Perry, C. T., Macdonald, I. A. 2002. Impacts of light penetration on the bathymetry of reef microboring communities: Implications for the development of microendolithic trace assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 186, 1, 101-113. DOI:10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00446-7