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Bifurculapes
Description | Edward Hitchcock erected the ichnogenus Bifurculapes, meaning "two little forked feet," for trace fossils that were discovered in the Early Jurassic Turners Falls Formation in the Deerfield Basin of Massachusetts. They are insect or crustacean trackways that consist of two rows of two to three tracks per series, with the two larger tracks being oriented parallel or oblique to the trackway axis. The third track, when present, is much smaller than the other two and is oriented approximately perpendicular to the trackway axis. Medial drag marks sometimes are present between the track rows. In trace fossil classification schemes based on behavior, Bifurculapes is considered a repichnion, or locomotion trace. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurculapes, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Bifurculapes | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Bifurculapes Hitchcock, 1858 | |||||||
Name Published In | Ichnol. N. England | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurculapes |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Bifurculapes elachistotatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Bifurculapes laqueatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Bifurculapes tuberculatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Ichnol. N. England - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!