Heimdallia

Heimdallia is an ichnogenus comprising a strange planar trace that does not have a circular cross-section; its maker may have been fed upon by Beaconella.[1]

The trace was probably made by a small crustacean.[2]

References

  1. ↑ McNamara, K.J.; Trewin, N.H. (1993). "A euthycarcinoid arthropod from the Silurian of Western Australia". Palaeontology 36: 319–335.
  2. ↑ Bradshaw, M.A.; Harmsen, F.J. (2007). "The paleoenvironmental significance of trace fossils in Devonian sediments (Taylor Group), Darwin Mountains to the Dry Valleys, southern Victoria Land" (PDF). Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World--Online Proceedings of the 10 thISAES X, edited by AK Cooper and CR Raymond et al., USGS Open-File Report 1047. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
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