Beaconites Vialov, 1962

DESCRIPTION: Small, cylindrical, unbranched, walled, meniscate burrow. Straight or sinuous,commonly horizontal to rarely inclined or vertical. Filled with meniscate packets or segments enclosed by distinct, smooth burrow linings (Keighley & Pickerill, 1994).

BEHAVIOR(S): Deposit feeding, habitation.

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Continental, alluvial to eolian.

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Arthropods

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Devonian-recent

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: (Emended: Keighley and Pickerill, 1994)

REMARKS: Large, unwalled, unlined meniscate trace fossils not included within this ichnogenus (Keighley & Pickerill, 1994; Smith et al, 2008). Morphologically distinct from Taenidium, Naktodemasis, and Scoyenia.

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