Nenoxites Fedonkin, 1976

DESCRIPTION: Simple horizontal to sub-vertical burrows that contain concave-forward hemispherical structures. Nenoxites is the oldest meniscate trace fossil.

BEHAVIOR(S): Repichnia

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Fully marine, low-energy distal shelf

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Earliest triploblastic metazoa such as Kimberella and other bilaterians

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Ediacaran

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Emended by Rogov et al., 2012

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