The trace fossil Diopatrichnus santamariensis nov. isp. – a shell armored tube from Pliocene sediments of Santa Maria Island, Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)

• Published in: Geobios
• Main Authors: Uchman, Alfred, Quintino, Victor, Rodrigues, Ana Maria, Johnson, Markes E., Melo, Carlos S., Cordeiro, Ricardo, Ramalho, Ricardo S., Ávila, Sérgio P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Ichnology; Ichnotaxonomy; Oceanic islands; Shallow-marine clastics; Polychaetes; Santa Maria Island; Azores; Maria Island; North Atlantic; Ocean Island
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1983/8457ae00-9a18-400c-ab1e-eec9bc990327; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/8457ae00-9a18-400c-ab1e-eec9bc990327; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2017.09.002; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/153620269/uchman_et_al_Geobios_Diopatrichnus2017.pdf

Diopatrichnus santamariensis nov. isp. from lower Pliocene sediments on Santa Maria Island in the Azores Archipelago (mid-North Atlantic) represents the third ichnospecies of Diopatrichnus Kern, as characterized by a vertical or inclined tube armoured mainly by bivalve shells that are mostly perpend...