Scolecia maeandria Radtke, 1991

ID16395
Fossil groupBioerosional trace fossils
TaxonScolecia maeandria
AuthorRadtke, 1991
ReferenceRadtke, 1991
Parent taxonScolecia
FADLadinian
LADRecent

Type specimens

TypeNoType localityType horizonRemarksReference
holotypeGoethe Universität, Frankfurt, GermanyBo 7/57Villiers-Saint-FredericLutetianVilliers-St.-Frederic IIRadtke, 1991

Description(s)

Blissett & Pickerill, 2007:

Diagnosis – (Emended after translation from the original German; after Radtke, 1991, p. 71.) Densely packed, curved to sinuous, vein-like network system that is parallel to the substrate surface. Constriction along the tunnels is sporadic.
Description – Complex network systems having curved to slightly contorted branching filaments that do not intersect. Average diameter of these fi laments is 170 μm and the length of the network systems averages 3·3 mm. At branching nodes slight swellings occur.

Occurrences