Bowl-shaped structures in a Pleistocene clastic carbonate wedge on the Island of Rhodes, Greece. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nielsen, Jan Kresten; Nara, Masakazu; Jacobsen, Aase Roland
• Is Part Of: Ichnos. Volume 27:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 326
• Page End: 333
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Bioturbation -- ethology -- foraging behaviour -- depositional conditions; Ichnology -- Periodicals; Trace fossils -- Periodicals; 560.5
• DOI: 10.1080/10420940.2020.1744582
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1042-0940

Abstract

Abstract: Bowl-shaped structures are for the first time reported from the Greek Island of Rhodes. They occur in Pleistocene deposits of the Cape Arkhangelos Formation in the Rhodes Synthem. The regularity of their three-dimensional appearance is the argument for a biological origin. This gives the reason to assign the structures to Piscichnus waitemata for which we issue a formal diagnosis. They were formed on a clastic carbonate wedge that built into a coastal, steep-sided basin. Associate trace fossils are Thalassinoides suevicus and Bichordites monastiriensis .