TY - JOUR
T1 - The trace fossil Ctenopholeus SEILACHER & HEMLEBEN, 1966 from the Jurassic of India and Iran
T2 - Distinction from related ichnogenera
AU - Fürsich, Franz Theodor
AU - Pandey, Dhirendra K.
AU - Kashyab, Deepali
AU - Wilmsen, Markus
PY - 2006/11
Y1 - 2006/11
N2 - The relationship between the ichnogenera Saerichnites BILLINGS, 1886, Hormosiroidea SCHAFFER, 1928, and Ctenopholeus SEILACHER & HEMLEBEN, 1966 is discussed. Straight, curved to looped uniserial rows of closely spaced circular to subcircular pits or knobs (negative or positive epireliefs) have been accommodated in the ichnotaxon Ctenopholeus kutcheri SEILACHER & HEMLEBEN, 1966. They were found on a bedding plane with oscillation ripples in Upper Jurassic rocks of the Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, and on flat surfaces with parting lineation in lower Jurassic sandstones of the Shemshak Formation of the eastern Alborz, Iran. In both cases, a shallow-water, high-energy environment is indicated. Evidence of a horizontal burrow situated below and connected to these pits/knobs confirms the interpretation of a three-dimensional burrow system consisting of a horizontal tunnel from which at close distance vertical shafts extended to the sediment water interface. In contrast to earlier interpretations of the burrow system as fodinichnion, it is here interpreted as an agrichnion, functioning as trap for small mobile organisms.
AB - The relationship between the ichnogenera Saerichnites BILLINGS, 1886, Hormosiroidea SCHAFFER, 1928, and Ctenopholeus SEILACHER & HEMLEBEN, 1966 is discussed. Straight, curved to looped uniserial rows of closely spaced circular to subcircular pits or knobs (negative or positive epireliefs) have been accommodated in the ichnotaxon Ctenopholeus kutcheri SEILACHER & HEMLEBEN, 1966. They were found on a bedding plane with oscillation ripples in Upper Jurassic rocks of the Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, and on flat surfaces with parting lineation in lower Jurassic sandstones of the Shemshak Formation of the eastern Alborz, Iran. In both cases, a shallow-water, high-energy environment is indicated. Evidence of a horizontal burrow situated below and connected to these pits/knobs confirms the interpretation of a three-dimensional burrow system consisting of a horizontal tunnel from which at close distance vertical shafts extended to the sediment water interface. In contrast to earlier interpretations of the burrow system as fodinichnion, it is here interpreted as an agrichnion, functioning as trap for small mobile organisms.
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M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33750628379
SN - 0028-3630
SP - 641
EP - 654
JO - Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Monatshefte
JF - Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Monatshefte
IS - 11
ER -