Trichophycus isp.


Description: Trichophycus is a horizontally to obliquely oriented burrow that has a broad "banana-like" U-shape, scratch marks in the burrow wall, and can (but does not necessarily) show some vertically oriented spreite. Trichophycus is interpreted as a combined feeding and dwelling burrow for a large arthropod.

Age: Ordovician
Formation: Sequatchie
Location: Georgia, USA
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Photographer: A. J. Martin

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