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Helminthopsis

Classification

    Phylum:  
Trace Fossils and Problematica
    Class:  
Trace Fossils
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Helminthopsis HEER, 1877, p. 116 [non GROUVELLE, 1906]
    Type Species:  
*H. magna; SD ULRICH, 1904, p. 144


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Fig. 44,2. H. sp., U.Cret.; 2a, Alaska, X1 (Ulrich, 1904); 2b, Aus., X0.75 (Abel, 1935)


Synonyms

Elminthopsis, Helmintopsis, Magarikune, ?Serpentinichnus, Tosahelminthes, Helmenthiopsis


Geographic Distribution

Eu.Asia-N.Am.-Antarct.-S.Am.(Venez.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tremadocian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
486.85
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Tert.
    Ending International Stage:  
Gelasian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
1.81


Description

Simple meandering smooth trails, but not as strictly developed as ,Helminthoida s.s. (RICHTER, 1928); in part with marginal ridges. [Helminthopsis involuta DE STEFANI, 1895, and H. ?concentrica AZPEITIA MOROS, 1933, p. 46, are to be placed in Spirorhaphe FUCHS; H. sinuosa AZPEITIA MOROS, 1933, p. 45, in Cosmorhaphe FUCHS; H. tenuis KSI4ZKIEWICZ, 1968, p. 7, should be ascribed to the " genus" Cordia EMMONS.]




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