Burrow fossils are the remains of burrows - holes or tunnels excavated into the ground or seafloor - by animals to create a space suitable for habitation...

Burrows are also commonly preserved in the fossil record as burrow fossils, a type of trace fossil. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Burrows. Holt...

than body fossils. Trace fossils are formed by organisms performing the functions of their everyday life, such as walking, crawling, burrowing, boring,...

creature thought to produce a certain form of burrow nearly identical to Paleodictyon fossils. The modern burrows were found around mid-ocean ridge systems...

Trichophycus) is the preserved burrow of an animal. As such, it is regarded as the earliest widespread complex trace fossil. Its earliest appearance, around...

nature of trace fossil classification, several ichnogenera hold names normally affiliated with animal body fossils or plant fossils. For example, many...

ichnospecies, whereas similar burrows with spreite will generally be assigned to the Rhizocorallium ichnogenus. Trace fossil Ichnology Chamberlain, C.K....

Paleodictyon is a trace fossil, usually interpreted to be a burrow, which appears in the geologic marine record beginning in the Precambrian/Early Cambrian...

ichnogenus of a type of trace fossil that is found in sedimentary rocks, and is thought to represent the horizontal burrow of a marine invertebrate organism...

Skolithus) is a common trace fossil ichnogenus that is, or was originally, an approximately vertical cylindrical burrow with a distinct lining. It was...

generally Ophiomorpha and other crustacean-generated burrows first become prominent in the Jurassic. Trace fossil Ichnology In near-shore environments, at least:...

Diplocraterion is an ichnogenus describing vertical U-shaped burrows having a spreite (weblike construction) between the two limbs of the U. The spreite...

currents. The burrows are often marked with chevron patterns showing the upward direction the organisms were tunnelling. Praedichnia: trace fossils that show...

an ichnogenus of unbranched, elongate burrows (a type of trace fossil) in originally soft substrate. The burrows are unbranched and straight, single-entrance...

consist mainly of tracks and burrows, but also include coprolites (fossil feces) and marks left by feeding. Trace fossils are particularly significant...

trace fossil consisting of a vertically spiraling burrow, known from Cambrian strata onward. Jensen, Sören; Mens, Kaisa (2001). "Trace fossils Didymaulichnus...

Osprioneides is an ichnogenus of unbranched, elongate borings (a type of trace fossil) in lithic substrate with oval cross−section, single−entrance and straight...

Conostichus is an ichnogenus of cnidarian trace fossil. They are nowadays considered to represent a burrow structure serving as a holdfast for an anemone-like...

upper substrate with burrowing animals The "Cambrian substrate revolution" or "Agronomic revolution", evidenced in trace fossils, is a sudden diversification...

common trace fossil in the Kaili biota displaying "smooth, cylindrical or subcylindrical, non-branching, winding and irregularly curving burrows, commonly...

crotovina. Generally, fossils found in crotovinas exhibit large proportions similar to known megafauna of their geological period. Burrow fossil II Congresso sobre...

These fossil owls differed in size from present-day burrowing owls, and their relationship to the modern taxa has not been resolved. Western burrowing owl...

known from the Beacon Supergroup, Antarctica, comprising a large, segmented burrow, bearing superficial resemblance to the skeleton of a snake, and probably...

Fugichnia is an ethological class of trace fossil characterized as "escape burrows" that are formed as a result of organisms' attempts to escape burial...

unsegmented and were essentially similar to modern forms. However, U-shaped burrow fossils that could be Echiuran have been found dating back to the Cambrian,...

Formation is a geologic group in South Dakota and Nebraska. It preserves fossils from the Miocene. Earth sciences portal Paleontology portal List of fossiliferous...

famously unexplained until shown in 2009 to be a concretion formed around the burrow of a worm. Found in 1921 in the Wealden area of Sussex in England during...

Hell Creek Formation, a geological region renowned for many significant fossil discoveries from the Upper Cretaceous and lower Paleocene. Uniquely, Tanis...

is an ichnogenus of burrow, the inclination of which is typically within 10° of the bedding planes of the sediment. These burrows can be very large, over...

Thalassinoides burrows give a unique texture to this crest carved from Ordovician Tyndall limestone. Richard Granville Bromley (1996). Trace Fossils: Biology...