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Ichnofossils within Tetradium and related genera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Ling Yang  and
Colin W. Stearn
Ling Yang
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, McGill University, Montreal H3A 2A7, Canada
Colin W. Stearn
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, McGill University, Montreal H3A 2A7, Canada
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Abstract

An ichnofossil formed by an organism that preferentially burrowed the micritic sediment filling corallites of tetradiids has an axial passage that may be filled with sediment or calcite spar and a surrounding affected zone of concentric structure formed by the alignment of grains. More than one such burrow may occur in a single corallite. A larger ichnofossil that destroyed both septa and walls of the corallites is associated with the smaller ichnofossils.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 64 , Issue 6 , November 1990 , pp. 881 - 885
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Copyright © The Journal of Paleontology 

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