Merostomichnites Packard, 1990

DESCRIPTION: Trace is composed of two parallel rows of bow-shaped appendage impressions that are transversely or obliquely arranged.

BEHAVIOR(S): Repichnia

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Marginal marine and freshwater environments

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Arthropods; eurypterids or phyllopods; may be produced by the same organism as Isopodichnus

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Cambrian-Triassic

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Davies (2006)

REMARKS: Description from Hantzschel (1975) and Davies (2006). Pickerill (1994) suggested that Merostomichnites be used as a junior synonym of Diplichnites.

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