Chalk and Related Deep-Marine Carbonates - Trace Fossils as Indicators of Sedimentary Environments - page 754

Environmental
setting

Background
fabrics

Recurring
ichnotaxa

Age, material,
and location Substrate Ichnofacies Source

Modern deep
sea

Softground Zoophycos Homogeneous,

burrow-mottled

Pl, Sk, Ch, Te,
Zo?

Recent, box cores, Abyssal
Pacific Ocean

Ekdale et al. (1984a)

Pl, Sk, rare Ch,
Zo

Recent, box cores, Abyssal
Atlantic Ocean

Ekdale and Berger
(1978)

Ancient deep
sea

Softground Zoophycos Homogeneous,

burrow-mottled

Pl, Ch, Zo, Te Cretaceous-Tertiary, DSDP

cores, Caribbean Sea

Warme et al. (1973)

Pl, Ch, Zo, Te,
He(?)

Cretaceous-Tertiary, DSDP
cores Pacific Ocean

Chamberlain (1975)

Pl, Ch, Zo, Te Cretaceous-Tertiary, DSDP

cores worldwide

Ekdale (1977)

Pl, Ch, Sk Tertiary, DSDP cores,

Philippine Sea

Ekdale (1980)

Pl, Ch, Zo, Te,
rare Th

Philippine Sea, DSDP cores,
South Atlantic Ocean

F ¨ tterer (1984)

Pl, Ch, Zo, Te,
Sk, Cy, Tr,
rare Th

Eocene-Cretaceous, DSDP
cores, North Atlantic Ocean

Wetzel (1987)

Pl, Ch, Zo,
rare Sk

Cretaceous-Tertiary, ODP
cores, Indian Ocean

Droser and Bottjer
(1991)

Ch, Zo, Te Cretaceous, Scisti a

Fucoidi, Italy

Erba and Premoli-Silva
(1994)

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