Arenicolite

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Ar`e`nic´o`lite


n.1.(Paleon.) An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Trace fossils Nereites, Helminthopsis, Cruziana, Lockeia, Cochlichnus, Arenicolites, Archaeonassa, Aulichnites, Phycodes and Planolites are found.
Warm-water Dasycladaceae algae from the Late Ordovician of the Parahio Valley, Spiti, India / Soojaveelised Dasycladaceae vetikad India Parahio oru Hilis-Ordoviitsiumis
This ichnocoenosis is interpreted as being inhabited by detritus-feeding crustaceans (Thalassinoides), anemones (Conichnus) and suspension-feeding or predatory annelids (Arenicolites, Palaeophycus, Planolites and Skolithos), and also includes rare bivalve borings (Teredolites) in wood that was presumably floating.
Ron K. Pickerill and the genesis of ichnology in the Antilles (Jamaica and Carriacou)
Trace fossils of this morphology, but without spreite, are also ascribed to Arenicolites, which however displays parallel arms (see Hofmann et al.
Lower/Middle Ordovician (Arenigian) shallow-marine trace fossils of the Pochico Formation, southern Spain: palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographic implications at the Gondwanan and peri-Gondwanan realm
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