Species

Entobia laquea Bromley et D’Alessandro, 1984

Taxon description

Bromley & D'Alessandro, 1984

Diagnosis: A camerate entobian composed in mature stages of networks of small chambers arranged in several tiers subparallel to the substrate surface. The chambers, variable in shape, taper abruptly near the constrictions that separate them from neighbours. They are organized in short, more or less arcuate chains that encircle small spaces in a way that resembles lace. The apertures, circular in shape, rarely fused, are small, numerous and distributed irregularly. Phase A well represented by branched exploratory threads that anastomose early to produce a slender network. Furthermore, phase A is usually present at the periphery, even in mature specimens. Phase B is greatly reduced or absent, the enclosed meshes passing almost directly into phase C. The most characteristic growth phase of the ichnospecies is C.

Synonymy list
1984     Entobia laquea isp. nov. — Bromley & D’Alessandro , pp. 244, fig. 17:2; 19:2; 23:1
1991     Entbia laquaea Bromley and D’Alessandro — Feige & Fürsich , pp. 93
1991     Entobia laquea Bromley and D’Alessandro, 1984 — Radtke , pp. 47, fig. 3:1
1994     Entobia laquea Bromley and D’Alessandro, 1984 — Mikulaš , pp. 303, fig. 3:6; 5:1; 8:1; 9:1
1996     Entobia laquea Bromley and D’Alessandro, 1984 — Hoffann , pp. 49, fig. 1:1
2004     Entobia laquea Bromley and D’Alessandro — Árpád , pp. 45, fig. 2:2
2018     Entobia laquea Bromley and D’Alessandro, 1984 — El-Hedeny & El-Sabbagh , pp. 6, fig. 7A
Selection of related publications
Hofmann, K. 1996. Die mikro-endolithischen Spurenfossilien der borealen Oberkreide Nordwest-Europas und ihre Faziesbeziehungen. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Serie A 136, 1-153.
Feige, A., Fürsich, F. T. 1991. Taphonomy of the Recent molluscs of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico). Zitteliana 18, 89-133.
Bromley, R. G., D'Alessandro, A. 1984. The ichnogenus Entobia from the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene of southern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 90, 227-296.