Burrinjuckia is an ichnogenus of bioclaustrations (a type of trace fossil). Burrinjuckia includes outgrowths of the brachiopod's secondary shell with a hollow interior in the mantle cavity of a brachiopod.[1] Burrinjuckia was probably a parasite. They have a stratigraphic range from the Late Ordovician to the Devonian. The earliest Burrinjuckia species B. clitambonitofilia Vinn, Wilson and Toom, 2014 occurs in brachiopod Clitambonites squamatus from the Late Ordovician oilshale of Estonia.[2]
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Trace fossil classification 
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| Ichnogenus: | †Burrinjuckia Chatterton, 1975 |
References
edit- ^ Chatterton, B.D.E. (1975). "A commensal relationship between a small filter-feeding organism and Australian Devonian brachiopods". Paleobiology. 1: 371–378. doi:10.1017/S0094837300002670. S2CID 87423940.
- ^ Vinn, O.; Wilson, M.A.; Toom, U. (2014). "Earliest rhynchonelliform brachiopod parasite from the Late Ordovician of northern Estonia (Baltica)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 411: 42–45. Bibcode:2014PPP...411...42V. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.06.028. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
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