Podichnus Bromley et Surlyk, 1973

ID16351
Fossil groupBioerosional trace fossils
TaxonPodichnus
AuthorBromley et Surlyk, 1973
ReferenceBromley & Surlyk, 1973
Parent taxonPodichnidae
FADTremadocian
LADRecent

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Description(s)

Knaust, 2012a:

Unbranched, cylindrical, etching.

Blissett & Pickerill, 2007:

Diagnosis – (Emended after Bromley & Surlyk, 1973, pp. 363, 364.) More or less compact groups of pits or cylindrical holes in hard, calcareous substrates. The pits at the centre of the group are more or less perpendicular to the surface; the more peripheral pits typically deeper and larger, entering the substrate obliquely and centrifugally.

Buatois et al., 2017:

Category of architectural design: 2.77. Multiple attachment bioerosion traces.

Robinson & Lee, 2008:

Emended diagnosis of ichnogenus. Podichnus . –More or less compact group or cluster of short pits, holes, elongate cylindrical shafts and/or furrows, mutually parallel or diverging, within carbonate substrates. Surface expression is a ca. 1–4 millimetre-sized cluster
of holes each up to ca. 200 μm in diameter.

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