Rusophycus trace fossil from the Ordovician of southern Ohio. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Rusophycus is a trace fossil allied to Cruziana[1]. Rusophycus is the resting trace, recording the outline of the tracemaker; Cruziana is made when the organism moved.[2] Both are typically associated with trilobites but can also made by other arthropods.[3]
References[]
- ^ Baldwin, C. T. (1977), "Rusophycus morgati: an asaphid produced trace fossil from the Cambro-Ordovician of Brittany and Northwest Spain", Palaeontology 51: 411–425.
- ^ Garlock, T. L.; Isaacson, P. E. (1977), "An occurrence of a Cruziana population in the Moyer Ridge Member of the Bloomsberg Formation (Late Silurian)-Snyder County, Pennsylvania.", Palaeontology 51: 282–287, http://www.jstor.org/pss/1303607
- ^ Woolfe, K.J. (1990). "Trace fossils as paleoenvironmental indicators in the Taylor Group (Devonian) of Antarctica". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 80: 301–310. doi:.
