Species

Gnathichnus pentax Bromley, 1975

Type specimen data

holotype: Mineralogisk Museum, Copenhagen ; MMH 13386; Kritika, Rhodes, Greece; Pleistocene , Sgourou Fm.

Reference:

Bromley, R. G. 1975. Comparative analysis of fossil and recent echinoid bioerosion. pp. 725-739.

Taxon description

Diagnosis. Gnathichnus consisting of a regular stellate grouping of five similar grooves, radiating at c, 72°.

Synonymy list

1975 Ichnospecies Gnathichnus pentax nov. — Bromley , pp. 738, fig. 85:1-3; 86: 3-5; 87: 1-7; 8:1-7

1977 Gnathichnus pentax Bromley, 1975 — Fürsich & Wendt , pp. 271

1977 Rederosignus quinqueradialis — Michalik

1980 Rederosignus quinqueradialis — Michalík

1982 Gnathichnus pentax Bromley, 1975 — Martinell , pp. 250, fig. 1:2, 3, 4, 5, 6

1985 Gnathichnus pentax Bromley, 1975 — Barrier & D'Alessandro , pp. 389

1992 Gnathichnus stellarum — Breton, Néraudeau & Cuenca-Boulat , pp. 229

1993 Gnathichnus pentax — Bromley & Asgaard , pp. 277, fig. 1

1993 Gnathichnus pentax Bromley, 1975b — Bromley & Asgaard , pp. 90

1999 Gnathichnus pentax Bromley, 1975 — Radwandka

Selection of related publications

Knaust, D., Schnick, H. 2024. Trace fossils from the Maastrichtian chalk of the Isle of Rügen, north-east Germany. Geologie en Mijnbouw 103, DOI:10.1017/njg.2024.6

Wisshak, M., Meyer, N., Kuklinski, P., Rüggeberg, A., Freiwald, A. 2022. ‘Ten Years After’—a long‐term settlement and bioerosion experiment in an Arctic rhodolith bed (Mosselbukta, Svalbard). Geobiology 20, 1, 112-136. DOI:10.1111/gbi.12469

Collareta, A., Peri, E., Godfrey, S. J., Bianucci, G. 2022. Just a different place to graze? An unusual occurrence of the echinoid feeding trace Gnathichnus pentax on a marine vertebrate coprolite (Miocene, Italy) and its palaeoethological implications. Carnets de Géologie 22, 20, 847-855. DOI:10.2110/carnets.2022.2220

Breton, G., Wisshak, M., Néraudeau, D., Morel, N. 2017. Parasitic gastropod bioerosion trace fossil on Cenomanian oysters from Le Mans, France and its ichnologic and taphonomic context. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62, 1, 45–57. DOI:10.4202/app.00304.2016

Försterra, G., Beuck, L., Häussermann, V., Freiwald, A. 2005. Shallow-water Desmophyllum dianthus (Scleractinia) from Chile: characteristics of the biocoenoses, the bioeroding community, heterotrophic interactions and (paleo)-bathymetric implications. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems, pp. 937-977. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. DOI:10.1007/3-540-27673-4_48

Bromley, R. G. 1975. Comparative analysis of fossil and recent echinoid bioerosion. Palaeontology 18, 4, 725-739.

Klassificering

References based on distribution