Species
Oichnus solus (Nielsen, Nielsen et Bromley, 2003)
Taxon description
Blissett & Pickerill, 2007
Description– Crudely ovate boring consisting of a hollow ring around its circumference. The shortest diameter of the outer border is 83 μm with its longest diameter c. 102 μm. The dimension of the hollow ring is inconsistent, having minimum and maximum thicknesses of c. 9 and 30 μm, respectively.
Synonymy list
2003 Fossichnus solus isp. nov. — Nielsen et al. , pp. 3, fig. 1-3
2007 Fossichnus solus Nielsen, Nielsen et Bromley, 2003 — Blisset & Pickerill , pp. 86, fig. 4
2015 Oichnus solus (Nielsen, Nielsen et Bromley, 2003) — Wisshak et al.
Selection of related publications
Blissett, D. J., Pickerill, R. K. 2007. Systematic ichnology of microborings from the Cenozoic White Limestone Group, Jamaica, West Indies. Scripta Geologica 134, 77-108.
Nielsen, K. S. S., Nielsen, J. K., Bromley, R. G. 2003. Palaecological and ichnological significance of microborings in Quaternary foraminifera. Palaeontologia Electronica 6, 1,
Klassificering
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Oichnidae |
| Genus | Oichnus |
| Species | asperus |
| coronatus | |
| gradatus | |
| ovalis | |
| paraboloides | |
| simplex | |
| solus |
References based on distribution
- Blissett & Pickerill, 2007 Riverhead old bauxite quarry
- Nielsen et al., 2003 Pleistocene