First record of a xiphosuran trackway (Kouphichnium isp.) from the Jurasic of India

Alberti M, Fürsich F, Pandey DK (2017)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2017

Journal

Palaeontologische Zeitschrift Springer Verlag (Germany)

Book Volume: 91

Pages Range: 113-126

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1007/S12542-016-0331-7

Abstract

A 44 cm long trackway from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian of the western Kachchh Basin represents the first evidence of the occurrence of members of the order Xiphosura in the Jurassic of India. The track consists of the imprints of the legs and the tail spine of a 36–44 cm long limulid and can be assigned to the ichnogenus Kouphichnium Nopsca, 1923. It was formed in a soft, silty to fine sandy substrate below the storm wave-base and preserved as a hyporelief at the base of a thin sandstone bed deposited by storm-induced currents. Eight different types of xiphosuran behaviour are known to be preserved as trace fossils: “swimming”, running, walking, crawling, mating, dying, ploughing, and resting. The present trackway from the Jurassic of India represents crawling, i.e., comparatively slow locomotion (Repichnia).

Authors with CRIS profile

Franz Fürsich

Involved external institutions

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel DE Germany (DE) University of Rajasthan IN India (IN)

How to cite

APA:

Alberti, M., Fürsich, F., & Pandey, D.K. (2017). First record of a xiphosuran trackway (Kouphichnium isp.) from the Jurasic of India. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, 91(1), 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1007/S12542-016-0331-7

MLA:

Alberti, Matthias, Franz Fürsich, and Dhirendra Kumar Pandey. "First record of a xiphosuran trackway (Kouphichnium isp.) from the Jurasic of India." Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 91.1 (2017): 113-126.

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