Genus

Stellatichnus Nielsen et Nielsen, 2001

Taxon description

Wisshak et al., 2019a

Predation; substrate calcareous; tracemaker unknown

Buatois et al., 2017

Category of architectural design: 2.63. Circular holes and pit-shaped borings.

Blissett & Pickerill, 2007

Diagnosis – (After Nielsen & Nielsen, 2001, p. 112.) “Biogenic holes having a starshaped outline and situated in skeletal substrate.”

Knaust, 2012a

Unbranched, sphtellate.

Nielsen & Nielsen, 2001

Diagnosis. Biogenic holes having a star-shaped outline and situated in skeletal substrates.

Selection of related publications
Nielsen, K. S. S., Nielsen, J. K. 2001. Bioerosion in Pliocene to Late Holocene tests of benthic and planktonic foraminiferans, with a revision of the ichnogenera Oichnus and Tremichnus. Ichnos 8, 2, 99-116. DOI:10.1080/10420940109380178