Ichnotaxonomy
2024 | Brette S. Harris, Cornel Olariu, Scott Melnyk, Maya T. LaGrange, Kurt O. Konhauser, Murray K. Gingras
Aratichnus, new ichnogenus, is described from a lower Eocene-aged, tidally reworked sandstone unit (Baronia Formation) near Baronia de Sant Oïsme, Spain. Aratichnus n. igen. is a horizontal, epichnial furrow ranging from simpler forms that display repeating straight to gently curved grooves to more complex serial furrows paralleling each other. Two new ichnospecies are described…
2021 | Scott Melnyk, Stephen Packer, John-Paul Zonneveld, Murray K. Gingras
A new wood-boring ichnospecies is described from transgressive (lagoonal) deposits of the Lower Cretaceous Sparky Formation (Mannville Group) in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. Apectoichnus lignummasticans is a trace fossil that occurs in a thin coal bed and that was emplaced in an in situ xylic substratum (woodground). The ichnofossil is thin, elongate, unbranched, and straight to gently curved…