Beaconites

This article is about the Beaconites trace fossils. For the article on the Quaker controversy, see Quakers § Beaconite controversy.

Beaconites is an ichnogenus known from the Beacon Supergroup, Antarctica, comprising a large, segmented burrow, bearing superficial resemblance to the skeleton of a snake, and probably created by a worm-like organism "shovelling" the substrate out of its way.[1] Some terminate in elliptical pits, around 1.5 cm in diameter, presumed to represent burrowing activity.[1] The producer of the trace is thought to have burrowed to a depth of no more than a few tens of centimeters.[2]

Ichnospecies

  • B. antarcticus (Vialov, 1962) [3] type fossil
  • B. capronus (Howard and Frey, 1984)[4]
  • B. coronus (Frey et al., 1984)[5]
  • B. fliformis (Uchman and Alvaro, 2000)[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Gevers, T.W.; Frakes, L.A.; Edwards, L.N.; Marzolf, J.E. (1971). "Trace Fossils in the Lower Beacon Sediments (Devonian), Darwin Mountains, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica". Journal of Paleontology. 45 (1): 81–94. JSTOR 1302754.
  2. ^ Woolfe, K.J. (1993). "Devonian depositional environments in the Darwin Mountains: Marine or non-marine?". Antarctic Science. 5 (2): 211–220. Bibcode:1993AntSc...5..211W. doi:10.1017/S0954102093000276. S2CID 129509428.
  3. ^ Vialov, O. S. (1962). "Problematica of the Beacon Sandstone at Beacon Height West, Antarctica". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 5 (5): 718–732. doi:10.1080/00288306.1962.10417633. ISSN 0028-8306 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
  4. ^ Howard, James D.; Frey, Robert W. (1984-02-01). "Characteristic trace fossils in nearshore to offshore sequences, Upper Cretaceous of east-central Utah". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 21 (2): 200–219. doi:10.1139/e84-022. ISSN 0008-4077.
  5. ^ Frey, Robert W.; Pemberton, S. George; Fagerstrom, J. A. (1984). "Morphological, ethological, and environmental significance of the ichnogenera Scoyenia and Ancorichnus". Journal of Paleontology. 58 (2): 511–528.
  6. ^ Uchman, Alfred; Álvaro, Jose Javier (2000). "Non-marine invertebrate trace fossils from the Tertiary Calatayud-Teruel basin, NE Spain". Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (in Spanish). 15 (2): 203–218. doi:10.7203/sjp.15.2.22170. ISSN 2660-9568.
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