Species
Tremichnus paraboloides Brett, 1985
Taxon description
Brett, 1985
Diagnosis.--Pits, circular, regularly and smoothly parabolic in cross section; about as deep as wide (depth/diameter ratio: 0.9); ranging in size from 0.1-3.6 mm in diameter (X = 0.95 mm, SD = 0.65, N = 529 pits); up to 100 pits of varying size may occur on a single calyx. Pit apertures sharply demarcated, flush; never beveled or surrounded by a raised rim or gall-like outgrowth, pits rarely associated with vague swelling of the underlying stereom; pits frequently intersecting at borders.
Synonymy list
1985 Tremichnus paraboloides — Brett
1985 Tremichnus minutus — Brett
1985 Tremichnus cysticus — Brett
1989 Balticapunctum inchoatus — Rozhnov
2015 Tremichnus paraboloides Brett, 1985 — Wisshak et al. , pp. 449
2017 Oichnus paraboloides Bromley, 1981 — Donovan & Pickerill , pp. 828
Selection of related publications
Rozhnov, S. V. 1989. New data about rhipidocystids (Eocrinoidea). Fossil and Recent Echinoderm researches, pp. 38-57. Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR Institute of Geology.
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Klassificering
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioerosional trace fossils | |
Family | Centrichnidae |
Genus | Tremichnus |
Species | cysticus |
excavatus | |
minutus | |
paraboloides | |
puteolus |
References based on distribution
- Rozhnov, 1989 Babino quarry Leningrad district Volkhov Stage
- Rozhnov, 1989 Putilovo quarry, Leningrad Oblast Volkhov Stage