Teichichnus Seilacher, 1955


DESCRIPTION: A vertical to subvertical stack of horizontally oriented spreiten produced by the movement of a burrow.

BEHAVIOR(S): Fodinichnia, Feeding burrow of an infaunal vermiform feeder.

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Marine lower shoreface, intertidal and estuarine settings, lagoons, deep-marine fans, and abyssal plains.

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Annelid or polychaete worms

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Cambrian-recent

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: (Häntzschel, 1975)(Fillion and Pickerill, 1990)(Mørk and Bromley, 2008)