Species
Maeandropolydora crassa Bromley et D’Alessandro, 1987
Taxon description
Bromley & D'Alessandro, 1987
Diagnosis. Abundantly branched, large, cylindrical boring system in lithic substrates, the internodes straight., curved or sharply bent. At some sharp bends, a cylindrical continuation flattens out to become a small pouch. Many short,curved side branches end blindly. The wall of the borings is granular, scattered with minute protuberanches (in cast), exept in the slender terminations of blind branches, with normally are smooth. Boring diameter varies somewhat in individual networks. Apertures circular and numerous.
Synonymy list
2004 Maeandropolydora crassa Bromley et D’Alessandro, 1987 — Blissett & Pickerill , pp. 181, fig. 7/1
Klassificering
Organism group | Biota |
Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
Bioerosional trace fossils | |
Family | Osteichnidae |
Genus | Maeandropolydora |
Species | barocca |
crassa | |
decipiens | |
elegans | |
filosa | |
lenticula | |
osmaneliensis | |
sulcans | |
vermicularis |