Oichnus paraboloides Bromley, 1981

ID13013
Fossil groupBioerosional trace fossils
TaxonOichnus paraboloides
AuthorBromley, 1981
ReferenceBromley, 1981a
Parent taxonOichnus
FADCambrian
LADHolocene

Type specimens

TypeNoType localityType horizonRemarksReference
holotypeGeological Museum, University of CopenhagenMGUH 15352Monte SmithPleistoceneBromley, 1981a

Description(s)

Bromley, 1981a:

Diagnosis: Oichnus having a spherical paraboloid form, truncated in those cases where the boring penetrates right throueh the substrate. Where it does not so venetrate, the parabYoloill rnay be deformed by a slightly raised central boss.

Blissett & Pickerill, 2007:

Diagnosis – (After Bromley, 1981, p. 62.) “Oichnus having a spherical paraboloid form, truncated in those cases where the boring penetrates right through the substrate. Where it does not so penetrate, the paraboloid may be deformed by a slightly raised
central boss.”
Description – Simple borings resembling overturned cones with the apexes truncated. The structures are perpendicular to the substrate surface.

Pokorný & Štofik, 2017:

Emended diagnosis: Penetrative Sedilichnus having a conical form, truncated where the boring penetrates through the substrate (after Bromley, 1981; and Zonneveld and Gingras,2014).

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