Genus
Helicotaphrichnus Kern, Grimmer et Lister, 1974
Taxon description
Kern et al., 1974
Diagnosis: Helicotaphrichnus is a partly excavated, partly deposited fossil tube that is found ony in the columellar wall of gastropod shells. The tube may be single, or it may double back on itself once or twicw to form tight U or S shapes, but it always follows the helical path of the chamber of the gastripod shell.
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Macroboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker invertebrate
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.73. Spiral borings.
Knaust, 2012a
Unbranched, cylindrical.
Aiheeseen liittyvät julkaisut
Casadio, S., Parras, A., Griffin, M., Marenssi, S. 2007. Borers and encrusters as indicators of the presence of hermit crabs in Antarctic Eocene gastropods shells. Antarctic Science 19, 3, 297-309. DOI:10.1017/S0954102007000533
Nielsen, J. K., Görmüş, M. 2004. Ichnotaxonomy and ethology of borings in shallow-marine benthic foraminifers from the Maastrichtian and Eocene of northwestern and southwestern Turkey. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 110, 2, 493-501. DOI:10.13130/2039-4942/5819
Feige, A., Fürsich, F. T. 1991. Taphonomy of the Recent molluscs of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico). Zitteliana 18, 89-133.
Kern, J. P., Grimmer, J. C., Lister, K. H. 1974. A new fossil spionid tube, Pliocene and Pleistocene of California and Baja California. Journal of Paleontology 48, 5, 978–982.
Luokittelu
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Trypanitidae |
| Genus | Amphifaoichnus |
| Anobichnium | |
| Australocerambyx | |
| Carporichnus | |
| Eocavum | |
| Helicotaphrichnus | |
| Species | commensalis |
| helicus | |
| Genus | Linckichnus |
| Osprioneides | |
| Paleobuprestis | |
| Pecinolites | |
| Spirichnus | |
| Stipitichnus | |
| Trypanites | |
| Tubulohyalichnus |
Levinneisyys ja viitteet
- Feige & Fürsich, 1991 Recent
- Casadio et al., 2007 Ypresian