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
Klassificering
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Oichnidae |
| Genus | Dipatulichnus |
| Kardopomorphos | |
| Lamniporichnus | |
| Loxolenichnus | |
| Oichnus | |
| Stellatichnus | |
| Species | radiatus |