Osprioneides

Osprioneides Temporal range: Silurian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Osprioneides kampto borings in a Sheinwoodian stromatoporoid from Saaremaa, Estonia .
Trace fossil classification
Ichnogenus:	†Osprioneides Beuck and Wisshak, 2008

Saaremaa Island

, Estonia.

Osprioneides is an

. [1] The borings are up to 120 mm long measuring 5–17 mm in diameter (Beuck et al., 2008) . The distribution of Osprioneides is more environmentally limited than that of Trypanites in the Silurian of Saaremaa, Estonia (Baltica). Osprioneides probably occurred only in large hard substrates of relatively deepwater muddy bottom open shelf environments. Osprioneides were relatively rare, as compared to Trypanites-Palaeosabella borings in the Wenlock of Saaremaa.^[2]

References

• Beuck L., Wisshak M., Munnecke A., Freiwald A. (2008). "A giant boring in a Silurian stromatoporoid analyzed by computer tomography". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 53: 149–160.
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