Heimdallia

Heimdallia
Temporal range: 478.6-466.0 Ma
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Trace fossil classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: incertae sedis
Ichnogenus: †Heimdallia
Bradshaw, 1981[1]
Ichnospecies
  • †Heimdallia chatwini Bradshaw 1981[1]

Heimdallia is an ichnogenus comprising a strange planar trace that does not have a circular cross-section; its maker may have been fed upon by Beaconella.[2]

The trace was probably made by a small crustacean.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Bradshaw, Margaret A. (1981). "Paleoenvironmental interpretations and systematics of Devonian trace fossils from the Taylor Group (lower Beacon Supergroup), Antarctica". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 24 (5–6): 615–652. Bibcode:1981NZJGG..24..615B. doi:10.1080/00288306.1981.10421537. ISSN 1175-8791. OCLC 4814476427.
  2. ^ McNamara, K.J.; Trewin, N.H. (1993). "A euthycarcinoid arthropod from the Silurian of Western Australia". Palaeontology. 36: 319–335.
  3. ^ Bradshaw, M.A.; Harmsen, F.J. (2007). The paleoenvironmental significance of trace fossils in Devonian sediments (Taylor Group), Darwin Mountains to the Dry Valleys, southern Victoria Land (PDF). 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. Vol. 1047. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2008-04-22.


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