Naviculichnium Ksiazkiewicz, 1977


DESCRIPTION: Epichnial depressions in the shape of an elongated ellipse with elevated rims. Traces commonly overlap.

BEHAVIOR(S): Fodinichnia

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Marine, occurs in the top of sand beds of thin turbidite deposits

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Polychaete worms

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Senonian-Middle Eocene

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Uchman, 1998

REMARKS: This trace is probably the preserved bottom of a vertically probing, meandering trace. Trace was probably backfilled by fecal pellets.

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