Lapispecus cuniculus Voight, 1970

ID15964
Fossil groupBioerosional trace fossils
TaxonLapispecus cuniculus
AuthorVoight, 1970
ReferenceVoigt, 1970a
Parent taxonLapispecus
FADKimmeridgian
LADPriabonian

Type specimens

TypeNoType localityType horizonRemarksReference
holotypeInstitute for Geology at the University of HamburgT. K. Nr. 1299Bündheim near Bad HarzburgSantonianin reworked (probably Kimmeridgian) limestone cobbles within a Santonian conglomerateVoigt, 1970a

Description(s)

Wisshak et al., 2017b:

Diagnosis: Main tunnel relatively constant in circular diameter, curled in partially tight windings close to the substrate surface or keeping close contact to earlier curls of its own tunnel. A thin vane may be developed between the tunnels on the concave side of windings and between the main tunnel and the substrate surface. Tunnels may cut through each other but more generally avoid breaking through into pre-existing tunnels or to the substrate surface

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