Species

Nododendrina europaea (Fischer, 1875)

Taxon description

Wisshak, 2017

Emended diagnosis. From one side of a large and vertically oriented node below the point of entry, a single fan-shaped plexus of branching and anastomosing galleries emerges, connected to the substrate surface by very thin apophyses, increasing in number towards the periphery. Surface texture irregular to spiny.

Synonymy list

1875 Dendrina europæa — Fischer , pp. 530, fig. 16:5-6

1876 Dendrina europæa — Fischer , pp. 103

1993 Hyellomorpha acuminata — Tavernier & Golubić

2010 Semidendrina pulchra — Beuck et al. , pp. 467, fig. 6A-B

2013 Semidendrina pulchra Bromley, Wisshak, Glaub & Botquelen 2007 — Taylor et al. , pp. 235, fig. 13

2017 Nododendrina europaea (Fischer, 1875) comb. nov. — Wisshak , pp. 53, fig. 19

2022 Nododendrina europaea (Fischer, 1875) — Wisshak et al. , pp. 11

Selection of related publications

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

Klassificering

Organism group	Biota
Ichnofossil group	Ichnofossils
	Bioerosional trace fossils
Family	Dendrinidae
Genus	Nododendrina
Species	europaea
	incomposita
	magna
	nodosa
	paleodendrica

References based on distribution

Wisshak et al., 2022a Recent