Oikobesalon
| Oikobesalon Temporal range: Cambrian–Silurian | |
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Trace fossil classification  | |
Oikobesalon is an ichnogenus of unbranched, elongate burrows (a type of trace fossil) in originally soft substrate.[1] The burrows are unbranched and straight, single-entrance with circular to elliptical cross-section. They are covered with thin mineralized lining. The burrow lining has a transverse ornamentation in the form of fusiform annulation. The earliest Oikobesalon traces are known from the Cambrian.[2]
References
- ↑ Thomas, A.T.; Smith, M.P. (1998). "Terebellid polychaete burrows from the Lower Palaeozoic". Palaeontology 41: 317–333.
- ↑ Vinn, O.; Toom, U. (2014). "First record of the trace fossil Oikobesalon from the Ordovician (Darriwilian) of Baltica" (PDF). Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 63: 118–121. doi:10.3176/earth.2014.11. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
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