Biomechanical Analysis of Fish Swimming Trace Fossils (Undichna): Preservation and Mode of Locomotion

Cardonatto, M. Cristina; Melchor, Ricardo N.

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“…This trace fos sil is pro duced by fish swim ming close to the sed i ment sur face (repichnion). Ac cord ing to Cardonatto and Melchor (2014) the po ten tial pro duc ers of this trace are palaeonisciforms with a subcarangiform lo co mo tion type.…”

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“…This ichnogenus was re viewed by Trewin (2000) and Minter and Braddy (2006) and its strati graphic range was orig i nally restricted to the Late Pa leo zoic (see Gibert et al, 1999). Sub sequently, Undichna was re ported from the Up per Si lu rian to the Ho lo cene as a com mon ichnotaxon in sub-aquatic con ti nen tal and ma rine en vi ron ments (Gibert et al, 1999;Minter and Braddy, 2006;Cardonatto and Melchor, 2014;Knaust and Minter, 2018;Knaust, 2019). Ac cord ing to Trewin (2000), Undichna oc curs also within gla cially in flu enced rhythmites and turbidites in non-ma rine bas ins.…”

Section: Vertebrate Trace Fossilsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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First discovery of Mississippian trace fossils in the Świebodzice Unit from the Witoszów region (SW Poland)

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2020

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As so ci ate Ed i tor: Micha³ Zatoñ Abun dant and mod er ately di verse trace fos sil as sem blage have been dis cov ered for the first time in mudstones of the Pogorza³a For ma tion from the Witoszów re gion, SW Po land. Fif teen ichnospecies in clud ing four teen ichnogenera are described. The ichnofauna is dom i nated by Dictyodora liebeana and con tains nu mer ous Palaeophycus tubularis, rarer Archaeonassa fossulata, Archaeonassa isp., Chondrites cf. intricatus, Curvolithus sim plex, Diplopodichnus biformis, Lockeia isp., ?Lophoctenium isp., Nereites isp., Phycosiphon isp., Protovirgularia isp., ?Psammichnites isp., Taenidium isp. and one ichnospecies of fish swim ming trails, Undichna cf. bri tan nica. Some other struc tures (wave rip ples in flu enced by micro bial mats and zig zag struc tures) also oc cur. The trace fos sil as sem blages dif fer in var i ous ex po sures, but three of them are sim i lar and dis play the Dictyodora liebeana ichnoassemblage. It is rep re sented mostly by the etho log i cal cat e go ries fodinichnia and repichnia, with fewer pascichnia, domichnia and cubichnia. This new data from the OEwiebodzice Unit sheds light on the palae on tol ogy, age and palaeoenvironment of the Pogorza³a For ma tion. The oc cur rence of D. liebeana and U. cf. bri tan nica in di cates the Mis sis sip pian age of most mudstones stud ied, for merly con sid ered Up per De vo nian. The trace fos sil as sem blage be longs to the non-stan dard Nereites ichnofacies, with out graphoglyptids. The lithological fea tures of mudstones, trace fos sil as sem blage and pov erty of macrofauna, tes tify to their de po si tion in a deeper sed i men ta tion zone be low storm wave base, most likely in dysaerobic, pro-delta con di tions. This study sug gests that rocks con tain ing D. liebeana may form a cor re la tive ho ri zon in the OEwiebodzice Unit.

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Section: Vertebrate Trace Fossilsmentioning

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Section: Vertebrate Trace Fossilsmentioning

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First discovery of Mississippian trace fossils in the Świebodzice Unit from the Witoszów region (SW Poland)

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2020

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“…The first morphotype has a main trail trace with high-amplitude undulation and a relatively narrow undulation of the median trail trace and the second one has a main trail trace with a relatively medium amplitude undulation and a rather narrow median trail trace (Trewin, 2000 ). Undichna britannica has been commonly interpreted by a subcarangiform swimming behaviour (Cardonatto and Melchor, 2014 ).…”

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“…The subcarangiform swimmers use only the rear two-thirds of their bodies to generate thrust (Cardonatto and Melchor, 2014 ), keeping the anterior third comparatively still (Fig. 6 ).…”

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The swimming trace Undichna from the latest Devonian Hangenberg Sandstone equivalent of Morocco

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Trace fossils occur in several strata of the Devonian and Carboniferous of the eastern Anti-Atlas, but they are still poorly documented. Here, we describe a fossil swimming trace from strata overlying the Hangenberg Black Shale (correlation largely based on lithostratigraphy; Postclymenia ammonoid genozone, ca. 370 Ma old). We discuss the systematic position of the tracemaker and its body size. This ichnofossil is important for three main reasons: (1) it is considered here to be the first record of Undichna from the Devonian of Gondwana, as far as we know; (2) it is the oldest record of vertebrate trace fossils from Africa; (3) it provides a unique window into the behaviour of Late Devonian fishes for which body-fossils cannot provide direct evidence. Further, we put this discovery into the macroecological context of the palaeoenvironment following the Late Devonian Hangenberg biodiversity crisis.

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Fish Swimming Traces from the Upper Devonian of Wuhan, South China

Fan,

Zong,

Gong

2023

J. Earth Sci.

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Biomechanical Analysis of Fish Swimming Trace Fossils (Undichna): Preservation and Mode of Locomotion

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

First discovery of Mississippian trace fossils in the Świebodzice Unit from the Witoszów region (SW Poland)

First discovery of Mississippian trace fossils in the Świebodzice Unit from the Witoszów region (SW Poland)

The swimming trace Undichna from the latest Devonian Hangenberg Sandstone equivalent of Morocco

Fish Swimming Traces from the Upper Devonian of Wuhan, South China

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