Species

Ilmenichnus devonicus (Hecker, 1930)

Current taxon already exists. See initial taxon Rhizocorallium commune

Taxon ID: 15704

Other version of taxon: Rhizocorallium commune

Taxon description

Schlirf, 2005

Emended diagnosis: Unlined, horizontal, straight to sinuous or plan spiral, unilobed U-shaped spreite structures, with protrusive U-spreite and subordinate retrusive limb-spreite; ratio of limb to limb-spreite < 1 to 2. Exterior smooth, or with longitudinal to transverse grooves and ridges. Burrow fill massive or with a low to high ovoid pellet content.

Fernández & Pazos, 2012

Diagnosis. Ilmenichnus with straight to sinuous or planispiral spreite-lamina without pustules (emended by Schlirf,2011).

Synonymy list

1904 Myelophycus curvatum n.g. n. sp — Ulrich , pp. 145, fig. pl. 13, fig. 2

1930 Rhizocorallium devonicum nov. sp. — Hecker , pp. 156, fig. 16:1-2

1954 Rhizocorallium jurense n. sp. — Mayer , pp. 25, fig. Fig. 1

1954 Rhizocorallium irregulare n. sp. — Mayer , pp. 82, fig. pls. 2-3

1974 Rhizocorallium irregulare Mayer, 1954 — Fürsich , pp. 24, fig. Figs. 1-2

1985 Rhizocorallium type A (R. cf. R. irregulare Mayer, 1954) — Eagar et al. , pp. 143, fig. pl. 4, fig. D, pl. 5, fig. B

1988 Scolicia plana — McCann & Pickerill , pp. 341

1994 Rhizocorallium irregulare — Buckman , pp. 135, fig. fig. 1A-B

1997 Rhizocorallium jenense — Jensen , pp. 78, fig. figs. 40a, 52, fig. 65A [only horizontally oriente

1997 Zoophycos isp. — Jensen , pp. 97, fig. 65C pt., 65B, D

Klassificering

Organism group	Biota
Ichnofossil group	Ichnofossils
	Bioturbation trace fossils
Genus	Ilmenichnus
Species	atherus
	devonicus
	multilobatus