Scolicia de Quatrefages, 1849


DESCRIPTION: Horizontal bilaterally symmetrical trail or burrow; trails are often concave epirelief, consisting of variably shaped, ribbonlike, ribbed furrow with or without median axis; transversely striated. Narrow lateral ridges to either side of the median furrow.

BEHAVIOR(S): Locomotion (repichnia) or feeding (fodinichnia) trace.

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Shallow to deep marine environments.

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Gastropods, echinoids.

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Cambrian-recent.

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Fillion and Pickerill, 1990; Fu and Werner, 2000; Tchoumatchenco and Uchman, 2001