Didymaulichnus Young, 1972

DESCRIPTION: Gently curving, smooth, surficial trail or burrow that is bisected longitudinally by a median furrow for a bilobate trail. Preserved mostly as convex hyporelief. Trails may overlap and truncate one another.

BEHAVIOR(S): Pascichnia (grazing trail)

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Shallow to deep marine environments; found in turbidites.

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Gastropod, molluscs, and/or arthropods

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Precambrian-Cretaceous

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Shawna, 1989; Bhawanisingh 2010

REMARKS: May be similar to Cruziana, Crossopodia, and Fucusopsis. Cruziana is different with well-developed scratch marks and transverse ridges; description from Shawna (1989). Young (1972) erected Didymaulichnus as a replacement name for Rouaultia de Tromelin (invalidated by Häntzschel (1965).

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