Species

Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887

Taxon description

Chen, Z.-Q. et al., 2012

Taenidium is indicated by unlined, straight or slightly curved to sinuous burrows that contain segmented filling (Figs. 6D, H–K, 8 F, 11B). Burrows also have well-spaced arcuate menisci but lack walls. The annular ornamentation is rather pronounced and the burrow may be slightly flanged at one end. These traces have a width of 3–4mm and length up to 24 mm with partitioned packeting. All features observed here agree with the type ichnospecies T.serpentinum Heer.

Uchman, 2007a

Note. Menisci of T. serpentinum Heer (1877) are much more widely spaced.

Synonymy list
1877     Taenidium serpentinum — Heer , pp. 117, fig. 45:9; 10B
1971     Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887 — Chamberlain , pp. 241, fig. 32:10
1987     Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887 — DAlessandro & Bromley , pp. 752, fig. text fig. 7
1990     Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1877 — Dam , pp. 142, fig. 11A
1994     Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887 — Keighley & Pickerill , pp. 324
2012     Taenidium Heer — Chen et al. , fig. 11B
2018     Taenidium serpentinum Heer, 1887 — Fürsich et al. , pp. 23, fig. 9C-E