Rusophycus by Any Other Name Is Still Rusophycus carleyi. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gibb, Stacey; Pemberton, S. George
• Is Part Of: Ichnos. Volume 24:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 19
• Page End: 26
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Cambrian -- Ichnotaxonomy -- morphology -- Ordovician -- synonymize; Ichnology -- Periodicals; Trace fossils -- Periodicals; 560.5
• DOI: 10.1080/10420940.2016.1257486
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1042-0940

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Rusophycus carleyi (James, 1885 ) is an ichnospecies that encompasses a variety of sizes and morphological variations that can be attributed to substrate-organism interaction(s) and taphonomic variation(s). R. carleyi ranges from the Cambrian to the Late Ordovician, with a cosmopolitan (global) distribution. Four ichnospecies are identified as junior synonyms of R. carleyi : morgati, moyensis, polonicus and radialis .