The ichnospecies Trisulcus laqueatus is an epichnial trail that is constructed of three grooves separated by two ridges. It exhibits significant amounts of extramorphological variation because the maker was moving through wet sediment. Thus, most details of the maker are obscured. Nonetheless, there is evidence of it having been made by arthropods, including the sharply-angled turns in one example, the division of the lateral grooves into separate imprints in some locations along the length of the trail, and comparison to modern trails produced by Cydnidae (burrower bugs).
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20 May 2022
A redescription and reassessment of the fossil trail Trisulcus laqueatus Hitchcock, 1865 from the Early Jurassic of Massachusetts
Patrick R. Getty,
Donald H. Goldstein
Palaeodiversity
Vol. 15 • No. 1
January 2022
Vol. 15 • No. 1
January 2022
Actuopaleontology
Arthropoda
Early Jurassic
ichnology
Repichnia