Gyrophyllites Glocker, 1841
DESCRIPTION: Central, vertical to oblique shaft with numerous club- or leaf-shaped horizontal to oblique lobes or tubes radiating out along different levels of the tube in a whorl- or helix-like pattern.
BEHAVIOR(S): Fodinichnia (deposit feeding)
ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Shallow to deep marine environments
POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Worms, vermiform organisms
GEOLOGIC RANGE: Cambrian-recent
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: F¸«ärsich, 1974a, Hantzschel, 1975
REMARKS: The complete trace fossil morphology is rarely preserved; individual layers of whorls preserved.
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