Gordia Emmons, 1844

DESCRIPTION: Long, slender, self croossing and self-looping, smooth trails of uniform thickness throughout; not meandering.

BEHAVIOR(S): Repichnia, Fodichnia.

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Marine to continental aquatic.

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: vermiform organisms, insect larvae, gastropods.

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Neoproterozoic-recent

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Emended by Fillion and Pickerill, 1990. Buatois and Mangano, 2007; Uchman, et al., 2009. See Jensen (2003) for review of traces including Gordia in the Ediacaran.