Donovan & Jagt, 2005a
| Author(s): | Donovan, S. K., Jagt, J. W. M. |
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| Year: | 2005 |
| Title: | Flosculichnus tectus, an etched attachment scar from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of The Netherlands |
| Journal: | Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belqique, Sciences de la Terre |
| Volume: | 75 |
| Pages: | 207-210 |
| Abstract | A single example of a rosette-shaped embedment structure on the carina of a scalpellid cirripede (Bosquet Collection) from the basal portion of the Valkenburg Member (Maastricht Formation) at St Pietersberg (Maastricht, southern Limburg, The Netherlands) is described as a new ichnogenus and species, Flosculichnus tectus. It differs from other rosetted traces in calcareous hard substrates, which consist of slender, radiating borings, in having a scalloped, cyclic structure surrounding a central depression. The most probable producing organisms are either an unidentified, sessile, unmineralised invertebrate or, perhaps more likely, a scalpellid cirripede. |
| Keywords: | Bioerosion, Cretaceous, New ichnotaxon, Paleontology, The Netherlands, Trace fossils |
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