Calcideletrix Mägdefrau, 1937

ID15841
Fossil groupBioerosional trace fossils
TaxonCalcideletrix
AuthorMägdefrau, 1937
ReferenceMägdefrau, 1937
Parent taxonDendrinidae
FADFrasnian
LADChattian

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Description(s)

Wisshak, 2017:

Emended diagnosis. Dendritic boring system in calcareous skeletal substrates with a series of main axes that give the trace a lobed appearance. Inner branches may anastomose or leave blind-ending branches. Trace closely prostrate and with many contacts to the substrate surface.

Knaust, 2012a:

Branched, network.

Buatois et al., 2017:

Category of architectural design: 2.75. Dendritic and rosetted borings.

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