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Caudichnus: new ichnogenus for a drum-shaped ichnofossil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

A. D'Alessandro  and
A. Iannone
A. D'Alessandro
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, I-70125 Bari, Italy
A. Iannone
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, I-70125 Bari, Italy
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Several specimens of biogenic structures somewhat resembling plug-shaped ichnofossils have been collected in two muddy deposits, Sicilian (Early Pleistocene) in age (Bossio et al., 1987), outcropping near Lecce, southern Apulia, Italy. One sequence is exposed in an unused quarry located at the eastern side of the Cutrofiano–Supersano road, 31 km post; the other one is in an active quarry, southwest of Lecce, near the village of San Pietro in Lama (Figure 1). The diagnostic features of the traces differ from those of the five ichnogenera recognized by Pemberton et al. (1988) for plug-shaped ichnofossils. The minor ichnogenera related to plug-shaped trace fossils, as indicated by those authors, are also different from the present structure. A new ichnogenus is proposed to cover this form.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 67 , Issue 6 , November 1993 , pp. 1075 - 1079
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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