Oldhamia is an ichnogenus describing burrows produced by worm-like organisms mining underneath microbial mats. It was common from the Early Cambrian deep-water deposits.[1][2]
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| Ichnogenus: | †Oldhamia Forbes, 1848 |
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The Ediacaran species Oldhamia recta are body fossils of a rod-like organism, rather than ichnofossils.[3]
The Ordovician Oldhamia pinnata and Carboniferous-Permian Oldhamia fimbriata were mentioned without any ichnotaxonomical formalization, and therefore are nomina nuda.
It was named after the geologist Thomas Oldham by Edward Forbes, who first described it in 1848.
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edit- ^ Seilacher, Adolf; Luis A. Buatoisb; M. Gabriela Mángano (2005-10-07). "Trace fossils in the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition: Behavioral diversification, ecological turnover and environmental shift". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 227 (4): 323–356. Bibcode:2005PPP...227..323S. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.06.003.
- ^ Herbosch, A.; Verniers, J. (2011). "What is the biostratigraphic value of the ichnofossil Oldhamia for the Cambrian: a review". Geologica Belgica. 14 (3–4): 229–248.
- ^ Tacker, R.C.; Martin, A.J.; Weaver, P.G.; Lawver, D.R. (2010). "Trace fossils versus body fossils: Oldhamia recta revisited" (PDF). Precambrian Research. 178 (1–4): 43–50. Bibcode:2010PreR..178...43T. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.01.008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
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