Cladichnus sp. SOLD

System: Ordovician.

Origin: Zagora, Morocco.

Plate measurements: 20.5 cm x 8 cm

 

SKU: IC137 Categories: ,

Ichnite that can be attributed to vermiform sedimentary organisms that fill their blind probes with terminal filling material that usually appears darker than the matrix. Assuming that the probes were initially excavated along their entire length, the fill can be interpreted as reworked or digested host sediment only if its entire volume was stored in the intestine and subsequently expelled from the body. This situation would be easier to explain in a sanitary burrow where probes were first made using wedges and then continuously filled with fecal material introduced from above.