Rosselia (Dahmer, 1937)
DESCRIPTION: Conical to irregular, funnel-shaped, vertical, concentric burrow with a central cylindrical pencil-thick tube.
BEHAVIOR(S): Domichnia (dwelling).
ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Found in shallow marine sublittoral to shelf deposits.
POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Polychaete worms, vermiform organism.
GEOLOGIC RANGE: Cambrian-recent
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Häntzschel 1975, Fillion and Pickerill 1990, Gingras et al.
REMARKS: May be confused with
Asterosoma, or a coprolite if the bulbous part is eroded and redeposited.
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