Diplichnites Dawson, 1873

DESCRIPTION: Simple trackway consisting of a series of closely spaced pairs of individual parallel series of fine ridges or tracks. Tracks are blunt to elongate, closely and regularly spaced and normal to oblique to trace axis.

BEHAVIOR(S): Locomotion (repichnia)

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Marine (shallow to deep) to continental including alluvial, lacustrine, and eolian.

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Marine arthropods (e.g., trilobites, Cambrian–Permian). Continental arthropods (e.g., centipedes and millipedes, shield shrimp).

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Cambrian-recent.

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Emended Briggs et al. 1979. Fillion and Pickerill 1990, MacNaughton et al. 2002.