Microbioerosion - Trace Fossils as Indicators of Sedimentary Environments - page 231

TABLE 5 Ichnotaxa with Paleotrophodynamic Relevance, Given with Their Known or Inferred Producers, Known Stratigraphic

Range, and Inorganic Nutrient or Particulate Organic Matter (OM) Preference (XX ¼ strong; X ¼ weak) as Experimentally

Determined by Carreiro-Silva et al. (2009)

Ichnotaxon
Biotaxon (type)

High levels of
OM only

High levels of
OM

High levels of
nutrients Stratigraphic range þ nutrients

Rhopalia catenata Radtke, 1991
Phaeophila dendroides (Crouan) Batters, 1902
(chlorophyte)

Carboniferous-recent XX XX

Fascichnus dactylus ( Radtke, 1991 )
Hyella caespitosa Bornet and Flahault, 1889
(cyanobacterium)

Ordovician-recent X X

Scolecia filosa Radtke, 1991
Plectonema terebrans Bornet and Flahault, 1889
(cyanobacterium)

Ordovician-recent XX X

Eurygonum nodosum Schmidt, 1992
Mastigocoleus testarum Lagerheim, 1886
(cyanobacterium)

Ordovician-recent X XX

Orthogonum fusiferum Radtke, 1991
Ostracoblabe implexa Bornet and Flahault, 1889
(fungus)

Ordovician-recent X X

Saccomorpha sphaerula Radtke, 1991
Lithopythium gangliiforme Bornet and Flahault,
1889 (fungus)

Eocene-recent X

Saccomorpha clava Radtke, 1991
Dodgella priscus Zebrowski, 1937 (fungus)

Ordovician-recent XX