Burrinjuckia

Burrinjuckia
Trace fossil classification

Burrinjuckia is an ichnogenus of bioclaustrations (a type of trace fossil). Burrinjuckia includes outgrowths of the brachiopod's secondary shell with a hollow interior in the mantle cavity of a brachiopod.^[1] Burrinjuckia was probably a parasite. They have a stratigraphic range from the Late Ordovician to the Devonian. The earliest Burrinjuckia species B. clitambonitofilia Vinn, Wilson and Toom, 2014 occurs in brachiopod Clitambonites squamatus from the Late Ordovician oilshale of Estonia.^[2]

References

1. Chatterton, B.D.E. (1975). "A commensal relationship between a small filter-feeding organism and Australian Devonian brachiopods". Paleobiology 1: 371–378.
2. Vinn, O., Wilson, M.A., and Toom, U. (2014). "Earliest rhynchonelliform brachiopod parasite from the Late Ordovician of northern Estonia (Baltica)". Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 411: 42–45. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.06.028. Retrieved 2014-01-09.