First record of the ichnofossil Podichnus centrifugalis from the Maastrichtian of northeast Belgium

In spite of the fact that Campanian-Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) strata in the extended Maastrichtian type area (southeast Netherlands, northeast Belgium, Aachen area, Germany) locally yield common and fairly diverse brachiopod assemblages, there are no previous records of pedicle etching traces assignable to the ichnotaxon Podichnus centrifugalis BROMLEY & SURLYK, 1973. Here we report the first examples of this type of trace fossil, in a test of the echinoid Echinocorys gr. conoidea (GOLDFUSS, 1829) from the Lixhe 1 Member (Gulpen Formation; lower Upper Maastrichtian), as exposed at t... Mehr ...