Protopaleodictyon Ksiazkiewicz, 1970

DESCRIPTION: Irregular form of Paleodictyon that does not exhibit a strictly polygonal pattern. This trace is exhibited as wide first order meanders with regular second order meanders that may have one or two appendages branching from second order meanders.

BEHAVIOR(S): Pasichnia, Fodinichnia

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Deep marine flysch deposits

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: N/A

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Devonian-Eocene

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Kern, 1980; Uchman, 1998

REMARKS: Description from Uchman (1998). Trace exhibited as irregular hypichnial nets instead of branching meanders now included in Megagrapton instead of Protopaleodictyon, after Kern, 1980. Trace may exhibit transitional forms from Cosmorhaphe or Belorhaphe to Protopaleodictyon.