The trace fossil Lepidenteron lewesiensis (Mantell, 1822) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Poland

Abstract

ABSTRACT:Jurkowska, A. and Uchman, A. 2013. The trace fossil Lepidenteron lewesiensis (Mantell, 1822) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica, 63 (4), 611-623. Warszawa. (Mantell, 1822) is an unbranched trace fossil lined with small fish scales and bones, without a constructed wall. It is characteristic of the Upper Cretaceous epicontinental, mostly marly sediments in Europe. In the Miechów Segment of the Szczecin-Miechów Synclinorium in southern Poland, it occurs in the Upper Campanian-Lower Maastrichtian deeper shelf sediments, which were deposited below wave base and are characterized by total bioturbation and a trace fossil assemblage comprising Planolites, Palaeophycus, Thalassinoides, Trichichnus, Phycosiphon, Zoophycos and Helicodromites that is typical of the transition from the distal Cruziana to the Zoophycos ichnofacies. L. lewesiensis was produced by a burrowing predator or scavenger of fishes. The tracemaker candidates could be eunicid polychaetes or anguillid fishes. Lepidenteron lewesiensis

Inoceramid stratigraphy and depositional architecture of the Campanian and Maastrichtian of the Miechów Synclinorium (southern Poland)

“…2). The inoceramid biostratigraphy of the Campanian and Lower Maastrichtian of the Miechów Synclinorium was presented by Jurkowska (2014; see also Jurkowska and Uchman 2013;Jurkowska et al 2015).…”

A new species of dercetid (Teleostei, Aulopiformes) from the type Maastrichtian of southern Limburg, the Netherlands

“…1A), their record is confined mostly to isolated teeth, skull bones (occasionally associated, yet displaced), vertebrae and scales. Especially in the lower Maastricht Formation, the ichnofossil (burrow) Lepidenteron lewesiensis (Mantell, 1822) is quite common (see Jurkowska & Uchman, 2013;Bieńkowska-Wasiluk et al, 2015;Niebuhr & Wilmsen, 2016;Jagt, 2019), containing numerous teleost remains, including those of dercetids. More or less complete fish or associated remains of skull, fins and body outside burrows, as is the case here, are very rare (Friedman, 2012;Taverne & Goolaerts, 2015).…”

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

“…The bioclasts may be more or less strictly selected and arranged in a characteristic way, allowing recognition of the tracemaker and differentiation of fossil burrows at the ichnogenus level. A few trace fossils of this type are distinguished on the basis of the A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t bioclasts, as for example Lepidenteron scales and bones or plant detritus ;Suhr, 1988;Jurkowska and Uchman, 2013); Diopatrichnus Kern, 1978 (lined with mollusc shells; discussed in this paper); Crininicaminus Ettensohn, 1981 (lined with crinoids;Seike et al, 2014); Nummipera Hölder, 1989 (mostly vertical tubes lined with Nummulitoidea tests; Jach et al, 2012); Baronichnus Breton, 2002 (lined with bryozoan zoaria); Ereipichnus Monaco et al, 2005 (horizontal burrows lined with orbitolinid tests and other flat bioclasts), and other unnamed forms (e.g., Papp, 1941).…”