Lanicoidichna Chamberlain, 1971

DESCRIPTION: U-shaped burrow consisting of slender, vertical shafts that have U-shaped bases. One to three smaller shafts branch off the u-shaped base of the main shaft forming W-shaped networks that may be linked are linked by subhorizontal tubular galleries to the main vertical shaft.

BEHAVIOR(S): Domichnia

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Near-shore marine environments including intertidal to marine-fluvial boundary environments.

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Polychaete worms

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Devonian-Pennsylvanian

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Hantzschel, 1975; Bradshaw, 2010

REMARKS: The subhorizontal burrows are interpreted by Bradshaw, 2010 to represent the motion of the burrow relative to sedimentation rate at the surface