Irhopalia spinosa (Radtke et Golubić, 2005)
Synonymy
Type specimens
Descriptions and remarks
Description. This small Rhopalia ichnospecies is characterised by a substrate-parallel multibranched boring system with individual flattened chambers being interconnected by short galleries (Fig. 7A-B). Both the chambers and the interconnecting tunnels are connected to the substrate surface by short, tapering rhizoidal appendages. Individual, often elongate cavities are 6-12 µm wide and the interconnecting passages measure 2-4 µm in circular diameter.
Diagnosis: The system develops parallel to the substrate surface, extending from the point of the initial entry by several irregularly branched segmented tunnels. Laterally widened tunnel segments, triangular or polygonal in outline are interconnected by narrow passages. They are connected to the substrate surface by numerous spiny attachments
Occurrences
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Borings with elliptical to sub-rectangular cross sections | Branched tubular borings | Camerate boxwork borings | Camerate network borings | Circular holes and pit-shaped borings | Clavate-shaped borings | Cylindrical vertical to oblique borings | Dendritic and rosetted borings | Elongate or branched attachment bioerosion traces | Fracture-shaped bioerosion traces | Globular to spherical borings | Groove bioerosion traces | Multiple attachment bioerosion traces | Non-camerate boxwork borings | Non-camerate network borings | Pouch borings | Radial borings | Single circular to tear-shaped attachment bioerosion traces | Spiral borings | Trackways and scratch imprints | U-shaped borings | Winding borings |