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Cruziana

Discussion

Usually considered a trilobite walking trackway, but can also be produced by crustaceans and other arthropods

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Taxonomy
Cruziana was named by d'Orbigny (1842). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type is Cruziana acadica.

It was assigned to Ichnofossils by Hantzschel (1975).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1842Cruziana d'Orbigny
1975Cruziana Hantzschel

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RankNameAuthor
—Ichnofossils
RankNameAuthor
genusCruzianad'Orbigny 1842

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Cruziana d'Orbigny 1842
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†Cruziana acadica Dawson 1864
†Cruziana barriosi Baldwin 1977
†Cruziana billingsi Fillion and Pickerill 1990
†Cruziana breadstoni Crimes 1975
†Cruziana furcifera d'Orbigny 1842
†Cruziana goldfussi Rouault 1850
†Cruziana linnarrsoni White 1874
†Cruziana problematica Schindewolf 1921
†Cruziana rugosa d'Orbigny 1842
†Cruziana rustica White 1874
†Cruziana seilacheri Zonneveld et al. 2002
†Cruziana semiplicata Salter 1853
†Cruziana stromnessi Trewin 1976
†Cruziana tortworthi Crimes 1975
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
W. Hantzschel 1975Elongate bandlike furrows covered by herringbone-shaped ridges, with of without 2 outer smooth or finely longitudinally striated zones outside V-markings occasionally with lateral grooves and/or wisp markings; variability in size and sculpture due to varied behavior of producer and preserved width of trail (0.5 to about 0.8 cm); length up to more than 1 m, commonly 10 to 20 cm; V-angle quite variable, acute to blunt, along length of an individual trail.
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range: base of the Montezuman to the top of the Late/Upper Barremian or 520.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections (33 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tommotian - Atdabanian525.5 - 516.0Kazakhstan C. sp. (155787)
Tommotian - Atdabanian525.5 - 516.0India C. sp. (10740)
Atdabanian521.0 - 516.0Poland C. sp. (7905)
Atdabanian521.0 - 516.0USA (Tennessee) C. sp. (154045)
Atdabanian521.0 - 516.0Sweden C. sp. (9878 9879 9880)
Montezuman - Atdabanian520.0 - 516.0Mexico C. sp. (10681)
Montezuman520.0 - 515.3USA (California) C. sp. (226620)
Botomian516.0 - 512.9Poland C. sp. (153008)
Dyeran515.3 - 511.2USA (Utah) C. sp. (96497)
Dyeran515.3 - 511.2USA (California) C. sp. (204541)
Dyeran515.3 - 511.2Mexico C. sp. (10684)
Furongian497.0 - 485.4Spain C. semiplicata (156227)
Tremadoc486.5 - 477.7Canada (Newfoundland) C. problematica, C. breadstoni, C. semiplicata (175844) C. semiplicata (176069) C. sp., C. semiplicata, C. billingsi (175845) C. sp., C. tortworthi (176088)
Arenig478.6 - 466.0Australia (Northern Territory) C. furcifera (90382)
Arenig478.6 - 466.0China (Yunnan) C. sp. (5428)
Arenig478.6 - 466.0Canada (Newfoundland) C. billingsi (176013) C. furcifera (176282) C. sp., C. goldfussi, C. barriosi (175994) C. stromnessi (175923)
Llandovery - Wenlock443.4 - 427.4Libya C. sp. (26987)
Llandovery - Pridoli443.4 - 419.2USA (Alabama) C. quadrata (210745)
Emsian - Eifelian407.6 - 387.7Brazil (Piaui) C. sp. (37128)
Eifelian - Givetian393.3 - 382.7Brazil (Piaui) C. sp. (37170)
Tournaisian358.9 - 346.7Australia (Victoria) C. problematica (94366)
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Poland (Swietoryzskie) C. sp. (175801)
Middle Triassic247.2 - 237.0Canada (British Columbia) C. seilacheri (210978)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Germany (Baden-Württemberg) C. sp. (154138)
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45Spain (Castilla-La Mancha) C. sp. (28006)